Title: GLobALIZATION LECTURE

388-3:  Introduction to Globalization

A.  History and “globalization”

Globalization in historical perspective
	Ahistorical present
A. G. Hopkins’ Tentative Taxonomy of Globalizations
Archaic (Pre-1600)
Proto (1600-1800)
Modern (1800-1950s[?])
		Post-Colonial (1950’s - )

the Pax Romana
Classical Empires
	Mauryan Empire (321 BC – 185B C) 
Connections
Routes
Silk route
	Alexander the Great 
Rhapta
	Zhang Qian, Wudi
	
Sea route
Transpacific route?
Exchanges
People
	Transoxania
	Lijian
	Armenian “Cenbakurian” à Persian “Cin-baghpur” [=“China Son of Heaven”]
Plants
Disease+ Kushan (ca. 0 AD – 200s AD)
	Parthian Empire (247 BC – 224 AD)
	Hàn Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD)
	Roman Empire (27 BC – 400s AD)