[...]... actors and their motivations To appreciate the trajectory of these actors traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors and the goods and ideas they have carried, I have looked at them over a millennial canvas My story of globalization begins with the journey of anatomically modern humans out of Africa some fifty thousand years ago Out of the necessity for survival, these people were the first adventurers. .. creating a varied gene pool and diffusing cultures Political edifices built by imperial rulers—from the Romans to the British Empire—promoted legal and linguistic unity and the exchange of plant and animal species across the globe Chapter 7, “Slaves, Germs, and Trojan Horses,” explores the dark underbelly of expanding global connections As more and more traders, preachers, soldiers, and adventurers have spread... better life and greater security that prompted traders to brave the waves, the same political ambition of warriors to occupy foreign lands, the same urge for preachers to set out to convert others to their ideas of the good, and the same drive of adventurers to seek new lands and opportunities are still working to shrink the world Many more have joined the different categories: migrants and tourists... climate, and natural selection As we shall see, the multihued great human diasporas from Africa, which sprang up in different latitudes and longitudes of the globe, organized themselves in distinct communities and began reconnecting with long-separated cousins across oceans and mountains This process of reconnection—driven by adventurers, traders, preachers, and warriors has grown thicker and faster... the way, they changed their pigmentation and facial features, and developed different languages and cultures as well The period of divergence came to a close with the end of the Ice Age Traders, preachers, soldiers, and adventurers from the emerging urban civilizations of the Levant, India, and China began connecting with one another, launching the process of globalization Chapter 2, “From Camel Commerce... millennia without having been given a name This book attempts to show that globalization stems, among other things, from a basic human urge to seek a better and more fulfilling life and that it has xi xii Introduction been driven by many actors who can be classified, for the sake of simplicity, as traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors These globalizers left their original habitats in the pursuit... deregulation and technological advances drove worldwide trading and investment The word’s meaning and usage has changed in tandem with the economic problems spawned by the process of globalization The changing appreciation of the value of globalization can be seen in the eclipse of the word by a more evocative and worrisome word: outsourcing Chapter 9, “Who’s Afraid of Globalization? ” explores how, despite... to join in the globalized network as traders, migrants, and consumers but are prevented by global rules and by the hand they have been dealt The big differences that mark the globalization of the early years with that of the present are in the velocity with which products and ideas are transferred, the ever-growing volume of consumers and products and their variety, and the resultant increase in the visibility... The most powerful tool of today’s globalization, the microchip, which has fueled the information revolution and now powers almost all industrial products, grew out of evolving Introduction ideas of mathematics and physics that span a thousand years and three continents Chapter 4, Preachers World,” explores the role that religious preachers played in reaching out and connecting with different human... of a better life, and millions of eager tourists, helped by modern transport, have built ever thickening bridges linking the globe Chapter 6, “The Imperial Weave,” traces the role of ambitious rulers, the warriors whose universalist aspirations and search for power and glory have taken them to distant lands From Alexander the Great to Genghis Khan, ambitious men have brought lands and populations under . traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors shaped globalization. III. Title: Traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors shaped globalization. hm626.c45 2007 303.48؅209—dc22 20070 00430 A. Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chanda, Nayan. Bound together : how traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors shaped globalization / Nayan Chanda. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn. of Management Bound Together Bound Together How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization Nayan Chanda Yale University Press New Haven and London A Caravan book. For more information,