![]() To be sure, this was not globalization in our current sense of the word. No one has found such an item – yet! – but archaeology could still surprise us. ![]() ![]() Even in those early encounters, the lure of a new product – red cloth – cast a mesmerizing spell on consumers, just as excited purchasers today clamor for the latest Nike sneakers.įor the first time in history, an object or message could travel all the way around the world. As supplies began to run out, the Norse cut shorter and shorter pieces, some no “wider than a finger’s width.” Still the locals offered full pelts for the scraps. ![]() When the locals exchanged furs for wool cloth the Vikings had dyed red, they tied the lengths of red wool around their heads. Regional networks joined together to tie a loop around the globe.Īs the Icelandic sagas inform us, trading began almost immediately with a premium placed on novel goods. As new pathways opened on continents, merchants, goods, technologies and religions moved around the globe for the first time. The Norse voyages linked existing pathways across North and South America with those across Afro-Eurasia. That is when, as incontrovertible archeological evidence shows, the Vikings left their home region of Scandinavia, crossed the North Atlantic and landed in northeastern Canada. Globalization started much earlier than you might expect – in AD 1000. ![]()
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