WHEN DID GLOBALIZATION BEGIN ???

WHILE MOST AGREE THAT GLOBALIZATION IS NOT A RECENT PHENOMENON, THERE IS NO REAL CONSENSUS ABOUT THE TIME WHEN GLOBALIZATION BEGAN.

*** SOME CONSIDER THE FIRST MILESTONE OF GLOBALIZATION TO BE THE FIRST GREAT EXPANSION OF EUROPEAN CAPITALISM IN THE 16TH CENTURY, FOLLOWING THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OR THE EARTH IN 1519-1521.

*** SOME ARGUE THAT GLOBALIZATION BEGAN WHEN THE LAYING OF THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL TRANSATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE IN 1866, WHICH, BY PROVIDING A REAL TIME COMMUNICATIONS LINK BETWEEN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA, TRANSFORMED THE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT.

*** ANOTHER ARGUMENT IS, GLOBALIZATION TOOK BETWEEN 1875-1925, WHICH SAW THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE AND WORLD TIME ZONES, THE NEAR-GLOBAL ADOPTION OF THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR, AND THE INSTITUTION STANDARDS OF TELEGRAPHY AND SIGNALING.

*** OTHERS BELIEVE THAT GLOBALIZATION BEGAN AFTER WORLD WAR II WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITED NATIONS. 

*** OTHERS ARGUE THAT THERE WAS JUST AS MUCH GLOBALIZATION IN THE 19TH CENTURY AS THERE IS TODAY. EXAMPLE: THERE WAS NO NEED FOR PASSPORTS, AND MOST PEOPLE MOVED FREELY FROM ONE COUNTRY TO ANOTHER.