The First Era of Globalization: “Know World” Globalization in the Time of the Roman Empire

Most scholars would recognize two key eras of globalization. They would agree that we’re currently in the second global era, the first being the time that British and other European nations set up vast overseas empires. We maintain that prior to the British led era of European globalization there took place a prior era of what we call “Known World” globalization, about 2000 years ago. In this article, we talk about our forthcoming book, Birth of the Multinational II, and outline the argument in brief, leaving the longer and more nuanced version to our book.