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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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### The premodern period
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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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Globalization is a long-term cyclical process.
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Therefore again globalization is nothing new.
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The current "global age" will pass and eventually be replaced by a new globalization.
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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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Still others argue that globalization should not be measured in mere decades or centuries. Rather, they suggest these processes have been folding for .orange[millennium] 千年.
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### The premodern period
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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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Still others argue that globalization should not be measured in mere decades or centuries. Rather, they suggest these processes have been folding for .orange[millennium] 千年.
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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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In 1900s, baseball became a national sports. At the same time, Japanese imperial army was raging across Asia:
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- 1894-1895 First Sino-Japanese War (甲午戰爭): Qing dynasty ceded Taiwan to Japan
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- 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War (日俄戰爭): Russia recognizes Korea as part of the Japanese sphere of influence and evacuated Manchuria 满洲
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As a results of the war, more than 100,000 Japanese migrated from Japan to Taiwan, Manchuria, Korea. They built schools mostly for Japanese settlers. Baseball was brought to the colonies.
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## 11th Summer Koshien
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On August 15th, 1926, then Japanese Prime Minister Wakatsuki Reijiro 若槻禮次郞 attended the 2nd day of competition and made a public announcement to the audiences:
>.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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On the court, there are two teams competing: Osaka HS vs. Dalian Commercial High 大連商業高中 (3-2, DL made 4 consecutive appearance in the national tournament). DL team mostly made of Japanese settlers but was cheerled by Chinese songs.
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Dalian Commercial High school was among the five highschools from Manchuria:
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- 青島中學 Tsingtao high school
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- 奉天商業中學 Fengtian Commercial high school
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According to historian Kawanishi Reiko, having a team from the Japanese colony has much symbolic meaning:
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- Bid for political support of the sports from the Japanese empire.
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.violet[Describes the various methods employed by one country to gain control of another country or geographical area, and then to exercise control - especially political, economic, and territorial - over that country or (geographical area) or over many other countries.]
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Term originated from development of Roman Empire, indicating political forms that had characteristics of Roman rule (e.g. powerful leader, the ruled people & land).
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Imperialism encompass a range of .green[controls]:
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Association between rulership over geographic spaces and people who lived there lead to many globalization terms of today (trade, migration, communication, etc) because of the past imperial power.
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