HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Outsourcing, Silk Road, Dhow
Document Summary
Smaller due to technology of travel-bigger and faster ships, making multiple trips. Bigger the two halves of the world are now aware of one another. The process of transformation of local phenomena into global ones a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and function together. peter n. sterns, globalization in world history (2009), p. 1. Eg economic ties, neoliberalism, subprime mortgages, economic power of china. Global mobility for jobs and for people. Exchange of knowledge, technology eg. farming machinery, military. The historical transformation[produced by] the active dissemination of practices, values, technology and other human products throughout the globe : albrow, the global age (1996) p. 88. Chinese world order, spheres of influence, spreading culture, ideas. Coinage as symbol and unifying tool of empire, reflecting overlapping. Buddhism and ability to adapt, spread, could incorporate local deities. Lubeck style architecture, german language from hanseatic trade. Crusades religion as a motivating force for expansion.
