Globalization
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Globalization is the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the economies, markets, societies, and cultures of different countries worldwide. It can be attributed to a series of f
Portuguese carrack in Nagasaki, 17th-century Japanese Nanban art
Native New World crops exchanged globally (clockwise): Maize, tomato, potato, vanilla, rubber, cacao, tobacco
Lisbon in the 1570s had many Africans due to the Atlantic slave trade.
The 1843 launch of the Great Britain, the revolutionary ship of Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Post–Cold War era
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The post–Cold War era is a period of history that has been ongoing since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which began in 1988 and marked the end of the Cold War by 1991, thereby leaving the United
Globalization
…globalization first appeared in the early 20th century, but came into popular use in the 1990s to describe the growing international connectivity of the post–Cold War world. Large-scale globalization began in the 1820s, and in the late 19th century and early 20th century drove a rapid expansion in the connectivity of the…
Nelson Mandela casting his vote in the 1994 South African elections