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1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Defining globalization’s birth (1)
4. Global warming at the end of the last ice age
5. World silver trade routes (16th-18th centuries)
6. China as a primary end market
7. The Potosi/Japan silver cycle
8. Price of silver in China vs. rest of the world: 1590
9. Schematic of Potosí
10. Spanish trade routes
11. American routes to China through Europe
12. End of the Potosi-Japan cycle of silver
13. Defining globalization’s birth (2)
14. 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 argument
15. American plants: ecological impacts on China
16. “Magellan exchange” across the Pacific
17. 18th century Chinese population explosion
18. American crops and China’s population
19. Rise of price and demand for silver in China
20. End of the Mexican silver cycle
21. Interdisciplinary globalization
22. Globalization before the industrial revolution
23. Direct European entry into maritime Asia
24. Conclusions

Topics Covered

• Globalization defined
• Eastern and western hemispheric isolation for over 10,000 years
• Key role of end-market China in globalization’s 16th-century birth
• Spanish American and Japanese mines
• European intermediaries
• Revolutionary ecological, epidemiological, cultural and demographic impacts globally
• Reverberations over five centuries
• Evidence of general technological superiority?

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Series:

• Doing Business in China II

Categories:

• Global Business Management

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Publication History

• Published on October 7, 2013