When do you think globalization began?

Think of an event from history that may have signified when it began?

Experts disagree on when globalization began.

Is it important to know when globalization began in order to study it?

Why is history important?

Sheshabalaya

First Stage – goods and ideas were exchanged along ancient trade routes. During this phase the Arabic civilizations were among the first ambassadors of the realm of ideas. They transferred knowledge of Indian science, medicine, literature, and mathematics to Europe.

Second Stage – This stage grew out of the first round and began in the late 1400s. Building on new ideas, Europeans developed technologies that enabled them to sail much farther than ever before. The growth of this stage of globalization is related to European Imperialism.

Third Stage – This is our current phase of globalization. It began after WWII. It is a time of rapid growth of world markets and nearly instant global communication.

Not everyone agrees!

I think globalization began with Columbus’s first voyage

in 1492.

You’re wrong! The goods that were traded until the 1800’s were clothes, furs and other luxuries. These things didn’t substantially

change societies.

You turds are both wrong. The first nations societies were changed drastically!

And what about the renaissance? Many

societies changed as the result of the exchange of goods, and ideas as well as the relations between

political powers.

The Silk Road

New IdeasRead the section

New Ideas, New Technologies, and Historical Globalizationon page 2 of your handout.

Complete the Activity at the bottom of the page

Predictions:

Large, square sails may have lead to…

Improved navigational tools may have lead to…

Gunpowder may have lead to….

IMPERIALISM

Mercantilism

Read page 3 with a partner and while you read…

Complete Analyzing Mercantilism on page 4

Analyzing Mercantilism

What is Mercantilism?Control of trade by a colonizing nation

Factors that made mercantilism work…Armed forces, navies and merchant marine fleets

Forces that caused mercantilism…The drive for more trade

Profits = control of the trade and competition gone!The growth of the middle class in Europe

Discovery of valuable raw materials

MERCANTILISM

You mean we have to send our supplies to England so they can make them in

to crappy nick-nacs and then we have

to buy them at inflated prices. Why

are we the ones who always get

screwed?

Consequences of Globalization on PeopleLets Review…

Mercantilism means…

Imperialism means…

Colonization

Ethnocentrism

Eurocentrism

Suppose a swarm of heavily armed people arrived at your front door and announced that they were going to move in and live with you. Your family could continue to live in the basement or another room, but you would have access to the rest of your home only when it suited the newcomers.How would you respond?Would you give in, fight back, or try to negotiate a better deal?

Would you come up with a different solution?

Cheap LabourTo maintain the steady flow of trade between colonies and home countries, the imperial powers needed an abundant, reliable supply of cheap labour. Workers in the colonies kept plantations operating while others churned out finished products in factories at home. But cheap labour was critical to achieving high profits — and to find it, employers turned to slaves, indentured labourers, and children.

Cheap Labour

Read pages 5

How did business owners benefit from slave labour?Why do you think it took so long for governments to ban slavery?

Responses to Slavery

Slavery

Slave Trade

What is the difference between these terms?

Add these two terms to your list

What do you think?

Was involvement in the slave trade morally better or worse than owning slaves – or did it amount to the

same thing?

Write a two or three sentence summary

Be prepared to defend your response

Slavery – A Moral DilemmaYour responses probably fit into one of the following three categories:

1. Trading and owning slaves amounts to the same thing morally because they depend on each other.

2. Owning is less morally wrong because owners are participating in a system they have little control over, while traders are actively dealing in lives.

3. Trading is less morally wrong because the traders are just meeting a need. If the owners did not demand slaves, the traders would not need to find them and sell them – and if these traders don’t do it, then someone else will.

African Imperialism Assignment