Golblization

Question 1

Globalisation

Answer 1

Globalisation is commonly linked to the economy as it involves the
unrestricted flow of capital, goods, technology, ideas, and people across
the globe. Additionally, globalisation encompasses cultural exchanges
between countries around the world.

Question 2

Ancient Times

Answer 2

• People, including travellers, traders, priests, and pilgrims, journeyed great distances to gain knowledge, opportunities, spiritual fulfilment, orto escape persecution.
• During their travels, they transported goods, money, values, skills, ideas, inventions, and even germs and diseases.
• An active coastal trade linked the Indus valley civilizations with presentday West Asia as early as 3000 BCE.
• The Silk Route connected China with the West, and food travelled from America to Europe to Asia.
• Noodles travelled from China to Italy, where they became spaghetti.
• European conquerors carried the germs of smallpox to America, and once introduced, it spread throughout the continent

Question 3

Silk Routes

Answer 3

S - Second century B.C. to 14th century A.D.
I - Importance of West-bound Chinese silk cargoes
L - Locations: Asia to Mediterranean through
China, India, Persia, Arabia, Greece, and Italy
K - Known as “silk routes.”

Question 4

Food Travels: Spaghetti and Potato

Answer 4

• Traders and travellers introduced new crops to the lands they visited.
• Noodles travelled from China to become spaghetti, or perhaps Arab traders took
  pasta to fifth-century Sicily, an island now part of Italy. - Many of our
  common foods, such as potatoes, soybeans, peanuts,corn, tomatoes, chilli
  peppers, and sweet potatoes, were unknown to our ancestors until about five ago.
• The introduction of the humble potato allowed Europe’s poor to live better and
  longer lives.
• Ireland’s poorest peasants became so dependent on potatoes that when disease
  destroyed the crop in the mid-1840s, hundreds of thousands died of starvation

Question 5

Conquest, Disease, and Trade

Answer 5

• European sailors discovered a sea route to Asia and also successfully crossed the western ocean to America.
• Prior to its “discovery,” America had been cut off from regular contact with the rest of the world for millions of years.
• Precious metals, particularly silver from mines located in present-day Peru and Mexico, enhanced Europe’s wealth and financed its trade
  with Asia.
• The Portuguese and Spanish conquest and colonisation of America was decisively underway by the mid-sixteenth century.
• The most potent weapon of the Spanish conquerors was the germs, such as those of smallpox, that they carried on their person.
• Due to their long isolation, America’s original inhabitants had no mmunity against these diseases that came from Europe, and smallpox, in particular, proved to be fatal