Lesson 2.3

Lesson 3—Foundations and Legacies of Historical Globalization

What shaped the legacies of historical globalization?

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Historians differ on when historical globalization actually began. It may have begun when Arab traders travelled to Asia in 100 CE. Many historians begin with the trade relationships that emerged after the Conquest of the Americas by Spain, Portugal, France, and England. Other historians formally acknowledge the nineteenth century as the starting point for historical globalization when the increased manufacturing and trade of goods globally created mass change in the societies of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.

The eighteenth century was a time period in Western Europe when many ideas emerged about how the economy should operate and how people should live and be governed. You will explore these ideas in this lesson and examine the legacies of the application of these ideas on the societies of both Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous peoples. Your work in Explore will gather understandings to these questions:

• What ideas, values, and beliefs formed the foundations of historical globalization?

• What were the legacies of historical globalization?

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