... Hopkins' four periods of globalisation, it is evident that globalisation has occurred prior to 1500, evolving over the different periods and effectively shaping each into fundamental stages of history through economic innovation. Despite Hopkins' classification, each period is not fixed, but overlaps and interacts with the others , the stages ranging from Archaic, Early Modern, Modern and Post-Colonial ... communities and cities that had been geographically connected for centuries. Although, as trade and migration were introduced, phenomena such as the expansion of empires and religious ...

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