Archaic Globalization: The Birth of the World-System
Julia Zinkina|David Christian|Леонид Гринин|I. Ilyin|Alexander E. Andreev|Ivan Aleshkovski|Sergey Shulgin|Andrey Korotayev
This chapter examines several consecutive periods of the earliest history globalization. In ninth to seventh millennia bce, an Afro-Eurasian network emerged. Although it formed slowly and was a loose entity, nevertheless functioned as means spreading innovation. Indeed, transmitted information ideas from one society another, thus enabling diffusion technologies innovations such domesticated plants, animals, metallurgy. traces origins patterns some these (such crops Near Eastern “founder crop package,” animal domesticates, well copper, bronze, iron metallurgy, war chariots, luxury goods). The most important stages in evolution ancient globalization were related “Urban Revolution” (fourth mid-third bce), subsequently emergence agrarian empires (1200 bce–150 ce), which increased density variability interconnections between societies world-system.
World-systems evolution and global futures