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Several great phases or waves of globalization are identified, each with their own point of origin.
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These phases happened sequentially, building on each other, and so this is different to the cycles theory.
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### The Prehistoric period: the Great Divergence
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Human being emerged slowly from a .green[single origin] (East Africa) but gradually moving and diversifying all over the world.
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Globalization was very limited due to .green[lack of advanced technology] to overcome existing geographical and social obstacles. Long-distance interactions never materialized.
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Very .green[limited social-political structures]: from hunters and gathers to settlers and farmers. Human first learn producing their own food. Surplus of food create new social classes (craftsman, bureaucrats, soldiers).
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New technology: .green[writing] (Mesopotamia 美索不達米亞, Egypt, and central China) and .green[wheels] (Southwest Asia).
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Wheels allows .violet[faster and more distant travel]. Writing allows the .violet[spread of ideas and inventions]. Writing also facilitated the .violet[coordination of complex social activities] and thus encouraged large state formations.
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## .violet[Events theory]
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It is possible to point to specific events as the origin of globalization.
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# Globalization in historical times

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New technology: .green[writing] (Mesopotamia 美索不達米亞, Egypt, and central China) and .green[wheels] (Southwest Asia).
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## The world we live in today inhereted much legacy from the past:
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## The world we live in today inherited much legacy from the past:
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.violet[Network] (e.g. Portuguese language linkage, English as medium of instruction)
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We are focusing on globalization, which is related to .orange[other processes] that affected large parts of the world in the past and still do today.
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First introduced by an American teacher Horace Wilson in .violet[1872]. Just 4 years after the .violet[Meiji Restoration] (明治維新) started. It embodies a foreign, modern, and civilized sports.
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>.green[原文:] 剛健的精神存在於健康的體魄之中,國民體育之進步乃國家向上之要素。諸君通過公平競賽,促使國民體育進步,實爲無比幸福之事。祝願諸君之健鬥!
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>.green[Translation:] The spirit of being healthy exists in a healthyy body. The progress of national sports is an element of our nation's uplifting. I wish you all can promote the advancement of national sports through fair competition, which is really a matter of happiness. Wish you all engage in hard and healthy fight!
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When asked by the reporter if he understood baseball, the PM said: "雖然看不太懂,但見識到了勇猛的氣勢。Although I don’t understand it, I saw the brave momentum."
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