globalization has been going on for a

long time! Fire, and bow and arrow used by

hunter and gatherer tribes.
Focus on technological change.
BC = BCE, and CE = AD,
Before Christ, Before Common Era
Common Era, Anno Dominus
humans went global many years ago!
In Sumer, in Mesopotamia, or Fertile Crescent, here grew
the first cities, essential for learning and technology. These
people invented writing, essential for transmission of ideas.
A Chinese seismograph, and rocket launchers.
it was claimed in an Oxfam
anti poverty report, that the
members of the top 10 richest
families in the PH have more money
than the lower half of the rest
of the population.
North and South America were called the New World,
because they were. 1492, voyages of Columbus.
Columbus, the 1st major European Explorer, driven by a desire for profit and glory.
Global
trade was
small stuff
back in
those days.

Magellan’s
Victoria.
A Portuguese
Caravel,
invented by
Prince Henry
the Navigator.
A
maneuverable
ship that could
said nearly
into the wind.
by the 1600s, the
Dutch were seeking
trade and profits
world wide. As you
can see by this
painting by Vermeer,
they knew where
they were going,
even if the natives
they were exploiting
did not.
The technological superiority of ships and
weapons assured the colonial powers of
Europe control over their colonies. Their
merchant class were eager for profits, for
raw materials and a ready market for goods.
The printing press made cheap books and newspapers,
essential for the rapid spread of ideas, maps, and
technology among the Europeans.
 An early corporation
ruled over the lives of
Indians, started 1600s.

British East India Company

fort and warehouse, and above
the company headquarters
in London.
the colonies of white people (European and American) at their height, 1914.
a Telegraph key to send messages, 1840,
essential to maintain control over distant colonies.
Before there was the internet, telegraph cables circled the globe.
diagram in 1891. Of course cities were connected. But it was expensive.
The railroad, invented in the 1820s, spanned the American Continent in 1880.
steam ships,
bapor, used
coal to heat
water,
making
steam
pressure to
turn the
propellers,
starting
1830s.
a Boeing passenger plane, 1928. Very luxurious!
this Boeing clipper plane landed in Cavite, connecting San Francisco and Shanghai in 1938.
Travel was only for rich Americans, costing about $5,000. A one way journey
took six days, versus six weeks on a steamer.
The A bomb helped terrify the
world into joining the United
Nations, in fear of another
world war.
wire services connected
the world by the 1930s.

right is an early computer.

today its memory
would fit into your
cell phone.
A computer in the 1970s. Now, an
expensive laptop could do everything it
could do.
Todays container ship. One box would fit into the
back of a large truck. just one half of a container
would be the annual trade of the silk road.
a railroad container freight train today.
Boeing 747,
which
helped bring
cheap travel
and quick
air freight
around the
world.
By the 1980s,
the PC was
developed.
1980s, but not connected to the internet.
A diskette was used to transfer files.
left, internet card, circa late 1990s for landline use.

Floppy discs, , and in blue, diskette

To connect to the
internet, you needed a
modem with a dial up.
It started here in 1994.
the idea of 3 worlds, 1st wo. capitalist, 2nd world socialist, 3rd world poor nations. But are we still 3rd World?