Archaic globalization

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Archaic globalization is a phase in the history of globalization. It describes small contacts between local networks or societies. It is globalization in an early, small form. Think of European merchants sailing to China to trade in small amounts, and the first exchange of religious or philosophical ideas.

Trade in an archaic globalization is usually about commodities such as Chinese silks, Arab horses or precious stones. According to C.A. Bayly, extensive slave trade is an example of the next phase of globalization, proto-globalization.

[edit] References

• Birth of the Modern World, C.A. Bayly, Oxford (2004), ISBN 0-631-18799-5

[edit] See also

• History of globalization
• Proto globalization
• Modern globalization