https://lithub.com/a-deeply-globalized-ancient-world-on-william-dalrymples-the-golden-road/
Of interest...?
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Hasn't the world always been globalized? How could it be otherwise without people falling off the edges?
Quote from: Nick Harbud on Apr 29, 2025, 12:37 PMShh - don't let Donald know you've posted this!
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(sorry) :-[
Quote from: Keraunos on Apr 29, 2025, 12:45 PMHasn't the world always been globalized? How could it be otherwise without people falling off the edges?
dang....hadn't thought of that!
The problem with the world being globalised is you really have to ask 'for who?'
Buddhist Pilgrims travelled immense distances. Christian pilgrims often covered a fair distance as well. Subsistence peasantry might barely know the next village.
But then I remember being told of a chap who worked for a bank somewhere in the UK, got a transfer to Shanghai because he fancied a change, married a White Russian Princess, who was working as a secretary, and worked a while in India and elsewhere in the Far East. Whereas my Aunts, who who would have been ten or fifteen years younger than him, never travelled more than forty miles from home :-\ But their father was very widely travelled, Turkey, Mesopotamia, India, Afghanistan, carrying a rifle for George Vth ;)