GS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Bourgeoisie, Nationstates, Cuban Missile Crisis
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Technology only provides a partial explanation of globalization. Though most people think it is the only part of globalization. Technology however has played a crucial role in the expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness around the world and world-space. Modern day technology has come from improvements on past technology. Hence we need to look at history to study globalization. Globalization represents the continuation and extension of complex processes that begin with the emergence of modernity and the capitalist world system. All researchers put a cap on how far they think globalization goes back. The prehistoric period (10 000 bce 3500 bce) 12 000 years ago small bands of hunters and gatherers reached the southern tip of south america. The successful endeavour of the south american nomads rested on the migratory achievements of the. Siberian ancestors who had crossed the bering strait into north america a thousand years earlier.
