Question

What is an example of "globilization" in Roman Times? (Anthropology question).

Answer 1

• Globalization as a term came to prominence in the 1980s. Although many consider this process a relatively new phenomenon, globalization has been happening for millennia. The Roman Empire, for example, spread its economic and governing systems through significant portions of the ancient world for centuries..
• Mobility is a key aspect of globalisation, and it is the degree of mobility attained by Rome that allows the possibility of considering the Roman Empire as the earliest form of globalisation in human history. The ability to mobilise resources underpins the historical significance of the Roman Empire. This can be seen from evidence found in the ice-cores recovered in Greenland that have begun to reveal the long-term history of heavy metal pollution.
• The Greenland ice-core data and the Tiber Valley surveys demonstrate the outcome of what can be described as a long-term process leading to globalisation.
• The Roman version of globalisation was extremely slow, but was led by ideas of geographical thinking that were quite revolutionary. Its origins lie with a decision by Appius Claudius Caecus to build both an aqueduct and a road in 312 BC.