... routine. While there can be no uncertainty about many of the modern day phenomenon's being recent developments, such as the internet for example, globalization it is argued, has been an ongoing process for some time. Perhaps the first sign of globalization occurred centuries if not millennia ago, at which time spices were been imported into Europe and Egypt from Asia. However, it was not until around 200 B.C, that regular trade routes between the eastern and western ends of the Eurasian landmass were established and globalization began to flourish. (O'Rourke 99:1) Since Columbus and De Gama sailed from Europe more than 500 years ago, globalization has evolved in fits and starts. The first great globalization boom occurred in the fifty years or so prior to World War I. Many commentators on the topic have even accepted the fact that globalization was more developed along some of its dimensions in that ...

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