Archaic Globalization

Archaic Globalization

Archaic globalization AKA the birth of the world system is the globalizing actions & improvements from the most primitive civilization up to early modern civilization (Roughly 1600).

This globalization describes the connection between communities & states, which occurred throughout Hellenistic age (Hellenistic age occurs in Greek culture, which  was the period of Mediterranean history between death of Alexander the great in 323 BC & the appearance of the Roman Empire. The era also known as classical Greece and later converted in to Roman Greece). The archaic globalization stretched from Spain to India by using the center point/s as the cities as Alexandria, Athens & Antioch (Muller, C., 2016).Other form of resources professed early form of globalization inspired & caused the development of Silk Road, which happened due to the trading links between the Roman Empire, the Parthian Empire & the Han Dynasty. Which started in western china and continued onwards towards Rome (Gonmos, A., 2016). The Islamic golden age when Jewish & Muslim traders & explorers recognized sustained economy which led to globalization of crops, trade, knowledge & technology. Worldwide substantial crops such as Sugar & cotton cultivated broadly across their world in this period. And the necessity of learning Arabic and completing Hajj also happened in the same time period (Babar, A., 2016). However, the arrival of the Mongol Empire, destabilized the profitable centers at that period, which were Middle East and China & facilitated the travelling along the Silk Road. Permitted travelers & missionaries as an example, Marco Polo had the privilege to complete their journey from one end of Eurasia to the other. In the meantime first international postal service, rapid transmission of epidemic disease such as bubonic plague AKA pre-modern phases of global exchanges are some of examples in archaic globalization (Strathern, P., pp.34-39).

Results of Archaic globalization,

·       Mapping – Increase the accuracy of mapping & represented Asia, Europe & Africa in with high accuracy.

·       Caravan transportation for goods.

·       Invented Printing press by Johannes Gutenberg.

·       Stating more developments in dissemination & renaissance in field of life.

·       Discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus