globalization is not new,”The Central Asian Silk Road connected Greece, Rome, and the Mediterranean withChina, facilitating trade over a distance of 4000 miles (6437km).• European colonization is an early form of globalization. Starting from 1500 CE, Europeancolonizers extracted resources from different parts of the world.• Use of slave labor to produce raw goods that were then processed by industries into goods formarkets in Europe and North America• Enabled industrialized production

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multinational corporations,”drive economic globalization. They havegeographically dispersed supply chains, allowing them to take advantage of differenttypes of economic activity (tertiary, primary, quaternary, etc.) and lower costs indifferent areas for particular types of labor. A multinational corporation is a businessorganization that operates extraction, production, and/or distribution facilities inmultiple countries.Among the first global economic institutions were Caribbean plantations like the oneshown here in a nineteenth-century painting of St. Croix Island. In the eighteenth century,thousands of sugar plantations in the British West Indies, subsidized by the labor ofslaves

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Geographers and Democracy,”Geographers do not necessarily conclude that democracy is the “”best”” system ofgovernment. Indeed, many geographers are critical of the imposition of democracy,often by foreign governments or organizations, in places where long-standing culturaltraditions support other political arrangements.They say that a democratic form of government should be achieved democratically.Nevertheless, few would deny that the shift toward more democratic systems ofgovernment over the past century and into recent times has been extremelysignificant

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