EVENTS

• Events is the fourth view that?

  it is a fourth view that believes that instead of cycles or great epochs, one can point to much more specific events that can be seen as the origin of globalization. In fact, there are many such possible points of origin of globalization, some of which are:
• Enumerate the 12 events pointing to the origin of globalization (1-5)

  1. the Romans and their far-ranging conquests in the centuries before Christ (Gibbon, 1998)
  2. the rise and spread of Christianity in the centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire
  3. the spread of Islam in the seventh century and beyond
  4. the traces of the Vikings from Europe to Iceland, Greenland, and briefly to North America in the ninth through the eleventh centuries as examples of, and landmarks, in globalization;
  5. trade in the Middle Ages throughout the Mediterranean;
• Enumerate the 12 events pointing to the origin of globalization (6-8)

  6. the activities of the banks of the twelfth=centur Italian city-states

  7. the rampage of the armies of Genghis Khan into Eastern Europe in the thirteenth century (Economist 2006: January 12)

  8. European trades like Marco Polo and his travels later in the thirteenth century along the Silk Road to China
• Events 9-12

  9. the "discovery of America" by Christopher Columbus in 1492. Other important voyages of discovery during this time involved Vasco da Gama rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1498 and the circumnavigation of the globe completed in 1522 by one of Ferdinand Magellan's ships (Joel Rosenthal 2007);

  10. Europen colonialism, especially in the nineteenth century;

  11. the early twentieth-century global Spanish flu pandemic;

  12. the two world wars in the first half of the twentieth century.