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How did the world become "smaller"?

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Grace Treado

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The Old Wide Web

Colonization

  • There were 3 main sections: Old World Web, the American Web, and the Pacific Web.
  • In three and a half centuries, people across the globe formed a single community through globalization.
  • 1450-1750 is the New "Early Modern" Era.
  • Christopher Columbus 1492: Americas
  • Vasco de Gama 1497-98: Africa
  • Colonization brought disease that natives did not build up pathogens too.
  • Crops and animals bounced around.
  • Military revolution put strains on rulers and societies, but in contrast the rulers wanted wealth from exploring new lands.

Power Shift

Conclusion:

  • Globalization caused webs to fuse shrinking the world by bringing it together.
  • The web may be improved, but people only moved a little faster.
  • All continents were in contact
  • Start of bad human effects on the environment: soil degrading and cleared forests.
  • The balance of power shifted, Western Europe became the most dynamic power, mostly because of the growth in commerce.
  • Land-based and maritime trading were the two types used.
  • Russian empire expanded across Eurasia.
  • Western European regional kings attempted to expand Europe by using overseas colonies.

Sources:

International Trade

1. Human Web Chapter 6

2. www.amphi.com/.../FDFBBBB6FAF64FDA.. (Word Document)

3. http://www.pearsonhighered.com/assets/hip/us/hip_us_pearsonhighered/samplechapter/0205659594.pdf

  • International trade routes spread goods, ideas, and spread religion.
  • Gunpowder, silver, and slaves were in high demand.
  • Slave trade effect was uneven because of the high demand. African slavers felt no connection to slaves because no common identity was shared.
  • Slaves came from conquered civilizations as well.

How did the world become "smaller"?

By: Grace Treado

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