The History of Globalization . Globalization is not a new concept. Traders traveled vast distances in ancient times to buy commodities that were rare and expensive for sale in their homelands.

The new global history instead builds on examples laid by such pioneering scholars as Robin Blackburn, Alfred W. Crosby, Philip D. Curtin, David Brion Davis, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Eric Foner, ...

T he Silk Road was the first great globalization scheme. From 130 B.C. to 1453 A.D., ideas, goods, cultures, and religions flowed between this overland trade route connecting the Far East, China ...

Globalization is the process of countries becoming increasingly connected culturally, economically, and politically. We can see evidence of it in every country, including the United States, in the ...

Dr. Zahra is a professor of history at the University of Chicago and has written extensively about globalization’s first collapse. April 5, 2025 Before World War I, globalization was at a high ...

A history of globalization on horseback Horses once drove global trade and power struggles, similar to today's semiconductors. It’s easy to forget that not too long ago, ...