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Nikkimaria (talk) 20:28, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Article Topic

Hey just wanted to let you know that our topic is protoglobalization. We will need to meet to discuss how we will divide the article into sections- Katie made a good point in thinking that we could start my dividing it by: Proto-globalization:

• Overview of the "state of the world" in 1600 (leading to a 'world system'

starting to develop that century) maybe the technological, social, economic statuses of the main countries, china, middle east, europe?

• Travel and Trade between countries (merchants etc)

trade routes, standards of currency, 'world economy'

• Treaties, agreements, government-communication between nations

hostilities...imperialism....wars...stuff.

Let's meet on Wednesday at class and discuss it more thoroughly. Accgail (talk) 18:19, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

• Other Topics that might work or maybe they are more subtopics for the divide, but anyway:
  • why it shifted from rarities to basic ommodities in their trading?
  • define and elaborate on the concept of "bodily practice"
  • the transformation from proto to modern globalization

Bbsaa (talk) 23:43, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Good start but more work needed

With this but you need to improve your references. See WP:CITE and Wikipedia:Inline citations. You also need interlinks (WP:BTW). This can be done over the next few days. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:52, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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WP:Lead

Hi Bbsaa, Thanks for your note on my talkpage. I was refering to the WP:lead, which is the section before the List of Contents, i.e.

"Proto-globalization or 'early modern globalization' is a period of the history of globalization roughly spanning the years between 1600 and 1800. First introduced by historians A.G. Hopkins and Christopher Bayly, the term describes the phase of increasing trade links and cultural exchange that characterized the period immediately preceding the advent of so-called 'modern globalization' in the nineteenth century.[1]

Proto-globalization distinguished itself from modern globalization on the basis of expansionism, method of managing global trade, and the level of information exchange. The period of proto-globalization is marked by such trade arrangements as the East India Company, the shift of hegemony to Western Europe, the rise of larger-scale conflicts between powerful nations such as the Thirty Year War, and a rise of new commodities—most particularly slave trade. The Triangular Trade made it possible for Europe to take advantage of resources within the western hemisphere. The transfer of plant and animal crops and epidemic diseases associated with Alfred Crosby's concept of The Columbian Exchange also played a central role in this process. Proto-globalization trade and communications involved a vast group including European, Muslim, Indian, Southeast Asian and Chinese merchants, particularly in the Indian Ocean region.

The transition from proto-globalization to modern globalization was marked with a more complex global network based on both capitalistic and technological exchange; however, it lead to a significant collapse in cultural exchange."

Pyrotec (talk) 15:48, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Good job

Thanks for the edits to Anna Etheridge article; I am glad to see you were able to find good references for that article. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 16:33, 18 December 2009 (UTC)