Origins of
Globalization in the Framework of the Afroeurasian World-System History
(Springer, 2018)
Andrey
Korotayev
Within
the framework of this article we attempt to solve the following tasks: 1. to
demonstrate that as early as a few thousand years ago (at least since the
formation of the system of long-distance and large-scale trade in metals in the
fourth millennium BCE) the scale of systemic trade relations grew significantly
beyond the local level and became regional (and even transcontinental in a
certain sense); 2. to show that already in the late first millennium BCE the
scale of processes and links within the Afroeurasian world-system not only
exceeded the regional level, as well as reached the continental level, but it
also went beyond continental limits. That is why we contend that within this
system, the marginal systemic contacts between the agents of various levels
(from societies to individuals) may be defined as transcontinental (note that
we deal here not only with overland contacts, because after the late first
millennium BCE in some cases we can speak about the oceanic contacts—the most
salient case is represented here by the Indian Ocean communication network); 3.
to demonstrate that even prior to the Great Geographic Discoveries the scale of
the global integration in certain respects could be compared with the global
integration in more recent periods. In particular, in terms of demography...
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