The Making of a Global World Globalization (or globalisation ) is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture. ‘Globalisation’ refer to an economic system that has emerged since the last 50 years or so. However the making of the global world has a long history – of trade, of migration, of people in search of work, the movement of capital, and much else. Globalisation in Ancient Times From ancient times, travellers, traders, priests and pilgrims travelled vast distances for knowledge,opportunity and spiritual fulfilment, or to escape persecution. They carried goods, money, values, skills, ideas, inventions, and even germs and diseases. Example 1 As early as 3000 BCE an active coastal trade linked the Indu...