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Globalization And The Global Economic System

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When we think of globalization historically, should we apply it within the frame works of archaic, proto and modern? A. G. Hopkins who wrote Globalization in World History tends to think we should. He defines archaic globalization as before to the industrious revolution and the creation of the modern state prior to 1500. For Hopkins, this time period planted the seeds of what would become the proto period. In proto-globalization, from 1500-1800, arose the beginnings of the state and the dilation of the global economic system by increased efficiency in revenue exploitation and the revolution of military fiscalism. Lastly, modern-globalization began to emerge in the mid 1800s to the mid 1900s. What defined this period separately from proto global periods was the ascent of the nation state and the aggrandizement of industrialization. Based on the categories of globalization above, it is useful to look at the historical progression of globalization in the context provided by Hopkins. In order to do make this argument however, it will be important to examine how globalization started as the archaic then matured to the proto, and finally transformed in to the modern by looking at how the state evolved its method of legitimizing itself, and the refinement of consumption relationships and patterns. In the archaic period of globalization, there were ancient forms of the state known as the warrior system and different types of consumption known as cosmic king ship, universal

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