Globalization: Growth to a Global or World Wide Scale
How has the world become globalized? Natural resources, food, everyday life products, media, ideas, and religion are all connecting items that move beyond boarders (Globalization Since the Fourteenth Century).
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Colonization is Globalization:
Expansions of the Romans and Europeans created the world we have today. Looking to expand, they colonized lands, developed natural resources, moved original products to the “homeland”, produced goods, and sold them back to the colonies. This interlocking cycle of dependence created the need for the world to globalize.
Globalization has taken place for over 5,000 years, but accelerated in 1991, interestingly, around the time the internet first commercialized (Globalization Since the Fourteenth Cenury). Another aspect to the exploding theory is human innovation and the Industrial Revolution. The creation of the steam engines, factories and other advances used natural resources, especially fossil fuels, to power production and transportation. This created demand which led to booms and busts of the world economy.
Today, many factors behind globalization such as food, social networks, and labor are so familiar, they are often overlooked as being dependent on the world.
Emily Berry 