Journal 3

Kyle Anderson

World History SM 208

Patti Andrews

Journal #3

     This week I found chapter eight to be the most interesting chapter form our assigned readings from the text book, Ways of the World: A Brief Global History By Robert W. Strayer. Chapter eight discussed commerce and culture and in my opinion sort of told the history of how the foundation of global economics was created. Strayer specifically examined the growth of long distance trade, culture and disease in the Afro-Eurasian  world of the third-wave civilizations from 500-1500. 

     Strayer stimulated my interest in this chapter by sort of tying the ideas of modern economics and globalization to the expansion of commerce during this time in history. The author best summarizes this idea by saying “ the Silk, Sea, and Sand, roads the Afro-Eurasian world and the looser networkers of the of the American web linked distance peoples both economically and culturally, prompted the emergence of new states, and sustained elite privileges in many ancient civilizations. In those ways, they resembled the globalized world of the modern times” (strayer 2009 p.238). Who would have thought that the idea of globalization was established it in an ancient time. In other worlds, I have all way thought that the concept of globalization was uniquely modern and created in the 21st century. Strayer in a way changed my view of how modern economic Globalization was created and that it has its roots in ancient patterns of trade and commerce.

Reference

Strayer W. Robert. (2009). Ways of the world: A brief global history. Boston, MA: Bedford/St.

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