HIST 1100- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 50 pages long!)
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Process of interaction/integration among the ppl, companies, and govs of different nations, driven by intl trade, investment, and technology. Enriched world scientifically, culturally, and benefit economically. Move jobs away to less developed areas (dec profits) Derogatory term in france--insists free market capitalism. Globalization began 206 bce during han dynasty. By 1350, networks of trade involving goods, animals, and ppl ran from eng>>>china (including mediterranean, africa, and middle east) Globalization saw a new departure in 15th century. Vasco de gama rounded africa and forced rulers located among indian ocean to allow. Port travellers est a network of imperial authority and set up trading posts. Huge profits and gold, spices, and timber. In 1492, portugal and castile defeated the emirate of granada; the last islamic state in the peninsula (called reconquista) King ferdinand of aragon and queen isabel of castile combined kingdoms= more power and 4692 to send off explorers to conquer land.
