INTL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Teleconnection, Neolithic Revolution, Columbian Exchange
25 Sep 2017
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Is it monolithic? (large, powerful indivisible and uniform system) Where is it going: definitions of globalization. Kearney (1995: the increasing volume and velocity of flows of people, information, symbols, capital, and commodities and their interaction with dynamics of communities and identities. 2017: homo sapiens evolves in africa, megafauna extinctions, neolithic revolution (transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement, agricultural societies created in different regions. Origins of capitalism: wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, crops spread, first society/civilization in, 14th-16th century transition from feudalism (nobility held crown in exchange for military. Mesopotamia fertile crescent 9000 bc service, peasant"s had to live on nobles land. 1648 created modern state and concept and given labor etc. in exchange for military protection) to capitalism in europe of sovereignty: increasing trade, growing commercial (mercantile) class, european colonial expansion. The birth of capital (mode of economic: emerging nation-states (westphalia organization) and the modern state (political economy)
