NUFS 144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Silk Road, Diet Food, Industrial Revolution
8 Apr 2020
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Deeply embedded in local culture but made portable by technology, food is both necessity and symbol. The age of globalization - when did it begin. Orthodox view - with sea voyages of columbus for many scholars culminating in the emergence of the intensely interconnected world of today. Challenging this view are scholars whose work traces the processes and webs of connectivity to a deeper and noneuropean past. Beginnings traced back to translocation of food crops as part of ancient trade networks and processes of food globalization pushing back the earliest exchanges to the 6th millenium bc. The beginnings of what is sometimes called the silk road. Involved the crossing of a great landmass one that separated regional centers of agricultural emergence in southwest asia and china. Early second millennium bc a time marked by developments in metallurgical technique such as bronze casting technology which moved from europe to china and northernmost russia.
