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Globalization Arcaica
The development of agriculture promoted globalization by converting the majority of the world's population to a sedentary lifestyle. However, globalization failed to accelerate due to the lack of long distance interaction and technology.The contemporary process of globalization took place around the mid-19th century.
I think this mark a point that was the first time that we know the globalization and that's why i think it was very important -
Protoglobalización
Protoglobalization was characterized by the rise of European naval empires, in the 16th and 17th centuries, first the Portuguese and Spanish empires, then the Dutch and British empires. In the 17th century, globalization became a phenomenon that also affected private companies when companies constituted as the British East India Company and was also when others parts of the world join to the globalization -
Emergence of Capitalism
In capitalism, individuals and companies usually represented by them, carry out the production of goods and services privately and interdependently, this depending on a consumer market to obtain resources and i think that this was also the first time when others countries started to consume others products and resources -
Modern Globalization
The nineteenth century saw the arrival of globalization approaching its current form. Industrialization allowed for the cheap production of current items using economies of scale while rapid population growth created a sustained demand for raw materials. -
World Trade
Global trade in the twentieth century shows a higher percentage of trade in marketable products, a growth in trade in services and an increase in production and trade by multinational companies. -
Before WWI
The increase in world trade from before 1850 until before World War I ended in 1914 was an incentive for the bases of direct colonial rule in the countries of the Southern Hemisphere. Since then other European currencies became mass circulation, the need to have resource bases was imperative. -
Before WWII
Globalization was also driven by the worldwide expansion of multinational corporations of North American and European origin, and the worldwide exchange of new creations in science, technology and production, whose most important inventions have their origins in the western world according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. -
The deepening of income inequality
As the world's rich people continue to accumulate wealth at a record rate, the middle class is in economic difficulties. Today, the richest 1% of the population receives a quarter of the income in the United States. During the past 25 years, the average income of 0.1% has grown 20 times more compared to that of the average citizen -
Signing of the free trade agreement
In 1994, the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) agreement was signed, signed by Canada, the United States and Mexico, where the free transit of goods and services and the elimination of tariffs between neighboring countries were agreed. -
Environmental problems
Now, more than ever before, environmental concerns appear in the front row of our global dialogue. We are facing a crucial fork in the road, a period of decision that will dictate the health and viability of our civilization for decades to come -