GS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Silk Road, Social Integration, Southeast Asia
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Global studies globalization notes chapter 1 & 2. Globality relates to the idea of entering a new era. The question is has globalization led us into a new modern era. Globally signifies a social condition characterized by tight global economic, politic, cultural tight global economic, political, cultures and environmental interconnections and flows that make most of the currently existing borders irrelevant. The modren age is the industrial revolution age and scientific revolution. 1780"s the uprise of a capitalist communization,50"s introduction of the printing press and that makes possible for the the modern age is almost 500yrs old and links all the way back to the renaissance. In 1989 the fall of the berlin wall divides the capitalist . Globalization refers to a set of external material social processes that appear to be changing our modern world into a new social condition.