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ORIGINS AND

HISTORY OF
GLOBALIZATION
• HARDWIRED •

✓ According to Nayan Chanda (2007), it is because of our basic human


needs to make our lives better that made globalization possible.
✓ Therefore, one can trace the beginning of globalization from our
ancestors in Africa who walked out from the said continent in the late
Ice Age.
• HARDWIRED •
✓ This long journey finally led them to all-known continents today,
roughly after 50,000 years.
✓ Chanda (2007) mentioned that commerce, religion, politics, and war-
fare the "urges" of people toward a better life. These are respectively
connected to four aspects of globalization and they can be traced all
throughout history: trade, missionary work, adventures, and conquest.
• CYCLES •
✓ For some, globalization is a long-term cyclical process, and thus,
finding its origin will be a daunting task. What is important is the
cycles that globalization has gone through (Scholte, 2005).
✓ Subscribing to this view will suggest adherence to the idea that
other global ages have appeared.
✓ There is also the notion to suspect that this point of globalization
will soon disappear and reappear.
• EPOCH •

✓ Ritzer (2015) cited Therborn's


(2000) six great epochs of
globalization. These are also
called "waves" and each has its
own origin.
The following are the sequential occurrence of the epochs:

1. Globalization of religion 4. Heyday of European


(fourth to seventh centuries) imperialism (mid-nineteenth
2. European colonial conquests century to 1918)
(late fifteenth century)
5. Post-World War II period
3. Intra-European wars (late
eighteenth to early nineteenth 6. Post-Cold War period
centuries)
1. Globalization of religion (fourth to seventh centuries)
2. European colonial conquests (late fifteenth century)
3. Intra-European wars (late eighteenth to early nineteenth
centuries)
4. Heyday of European imperialism (mid-nineteenth century
to 1918)
5. Post-World War II period
6. Post-Cold War period
• EVENTS •
✓ Gibbon (1998), argued that Roman conquests centuries
before Christ were its origin. In an issue of the magazine the
Economist (2006, January 12), it considered the rampage of
the armies of Genghis Khan into Eastern Europe in the
thirteenth century.
• EVENTS •

✓ Rosenthal (2007), gave premium to voyages of


discovery—Christopher Columbus's discovery of America in
1942, Vasco da Gama in Cape of Good Hope in 1498, and
Ferdinand Magellan's completed circumnavigation of the
globe in 1522.
first
transatlantic
telephone
cable (1956)
first
transatlantic
television
broadcasts
(1962)
founding of the
modern
Internet in
(1988)
terrorist
attacks on the
Twin Towers in
New York
(2001)
Prepared by:
ANA CAMILLE C. OJALES
BSED 1- SOCIAL STUDIES

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