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Explain The Trends That Characterized The First Era Of Globalization

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-Trends that characterized the First Era of Globalization include interludes of Vikings, Turkish, and Mongol peoples, integration of regional states, and inter-regional exchange of technology, crops, and diseases. From 1000 to 1500 C.E. rulership of societies changed from being controlled by large, central societies to being overrun by nomadic people like the Turkish and Mongols, but the political foundation that they laid helped to stimulate trade between regions and highly integrated them. They controlled the trade routes between societies. The government was mostly clan-based and one could attain a high office position based on merit and knowledge rather than kinship. With this further integration, technologies could spread much faster.
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