The word globalization refers to the ever-increasing connections among places that has resulted from increasing trade and communication. Technologies including containerized transportation and the internet have certainly increased the speed and complexity of global connections.
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| The fabric that brought worlds together. |
As impressive as these technologies are, however, they did not
begin the process of globalization. The
Silk Road is a five-minute video from TED-Ed that explains how globalization was developing in Asia twenty centuries ago!
More recently and closer to home, the telegraph was an important way of connecting the world in the 1800s. It has been described as the
Victorian Internet in a book by Tom Standage, who described the geography of telegraphs in an
interview on
All Things Considered.
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