Over the hundreds and thousand of years of history, humans have always been trying to collaborate and create a better life for themselves. All of these factors of human life eventually led to globalization. The big question is, what is Globalization? How did Globalization happen in the first place? The main causes of globalization were trade, exploration, timing, and religion. With all of these causes came effects, which were disease, conquest, global goods, and technological advancements.
Without the mixing of ideas, globalization wouldn 't be possible. Throughout history, there are tons of examples of trade. To start off, the first examples of trade began all the way at the beginning of the agricultural revolution around 10,000 years ago. …show more content…
Without people exploring we wouldn 't have a globalized civilization that we have today. There are examples from back in the Paleolithic era of exploration because of hunter gatherers. Hunter gatherers needed to move around all the time to keep up with their food sources. Later on when civilizations started to form, another form of exploration took place, and that was conquest. Civilizations like Mesopotamia were looking for more land and resource. Since they were going of to take more land, this could be considered exploration. A good example of conquest around 300 B.C.E was Alexander the Great. His army took over a huge part of the middle east and eastern asia (Page 127, Chapter 3). This conquest helped with the uniting of the empire, eventually leading to the rise of the Roman empire. While conquest was a big form of exploring around 500 B.C.E to 500 C.E, after that exploration was more overseas. A big exploration that ended with an abrupt finish was that from China. It didn’t start off with an intention to explore new land, but instead to get neighboring areas to join their tribute system. They had over 300 hundred ships and thousands of crew members. After 30 years, these voyages were stopped suddenly (Page 568, Chapter 12). Even though this wasn’t intended to explore land, but more for establishing order again, it did serve as exploration. The people that went …show more content…
This exploration was started in Europe. Starting in Portugal in the year 1415, these voyages traveled down the coast of Africa. Then later in the century, the story we all know, Christopher Columbus took his voyage. His voyage was intended to get to the east side of Asia, but instead brought him to the Americas. This one voyage dramatically changed the course of globalization as a whole. Not only did this help with globalization, but there was another voyage that did the same. Five years after Christopher Columbus’s voyage, another voyage took place that went all the way down the coast of Africa and up to India (Pages 573-575, Chapter 12). This voyage also helped with globalization because even if the Europeans couldn’t get to China by land, they could now go by sea, which allowed for more global
Without the mixing of ideas, globalization wouldn 't be possible. Throughout history, there are tons of examples of trade. To start off, the first examples of trade began all the way at the beginning of the agricultural revolution around 10,000 years ago. …show more content…
Without people exploring we wouldn 't have a globalized civilization that we have today. There are examples from back in the Paleolithic era of exploration because of hunter gatherers. Hunter gatherers needed to move around all the time to keep up with their food sources. Later on when civilizations started to form, another form of exploration took place, and that was conquest. Civilizations like Mesopotamia were looking for more land and resource. Since they were going of to take more land, this could be considered exploration. A good example of conquest around 300 B.C.E was Alexander the Great. His army took over a huge part of the middle east and eastern asia (Page 127, Chapter 3). This conquest helped with the uniting of the empire, eventually leading to the rise of the Roman empire. While conquest was a big form of exploring around 500 B.C.E to 500 C.E, after that exploration was more overseas. A big exploration that ended with an abrupt finish was that from China. It didn’t start off with an intention to explore new land, but instead to get neighboring areas to join their tribute system. They had over 300 hundred ships and thousands of crew members. After 30 years, these voyages were stopped suddenly (Page 568, Chapter 12). Even though this wasn’t intended to explore land, but more for establishing order again, it did serve as exploration. The people that went …show more content…
This exploration was started in Europe. Starting in Portugal in the year 1415, these voyages traveled down the coast of Africa. Then later in the century, the story we all know, Christopher Columbus took his voyage. His voyage was intended to get to the east side of Asia, but instead brought him to the Americas. This one voyage dramatically changed the course of globalization as a whole. Not only did this help with globalization, but there was another voyage that did the same. Five years after Christopher Columbus’s voyage, another voyage took place that went all the way down the coast of Africa and up to India (Pages 573-575, Chapter 12). This voyage also helped with globalization because even if the Europeans couldn’t get to China by land, they could now go by sea, which allowed for more global