GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dutch East India Trading, East India Company, Monarchy Of The Netherlands
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Immense wealth and yet immense poverty within countries. Difficult to predict with precision where were headed because globalization is contradictory. Rich getting richer, poor getting poorer, 10% of canadians wealthy citizens owns 90% of. Silk road- travelling and sending goods and services has been happening for centuries. Questioning whether there is a historical precedence as to why this is happening. Travelled from north west africa to middle east, to indian subcontinent and as far east as china and back to morocco over a period of 30 years. Travelled 123,000km in his lifetime, more than 3 times the distance of marco polo. People from all around the world owning the same things. *the same motives behind what we see in the real world today. Political and cultural influences when country becomes open to trade. Paid annual dividends for 200 years at 18% Our intellectual awareness of belonging to common human community. Internal change in our collective consciousness of the human race.
