This essay will explore the differing forms of globalisation spanning from 1500 to the present, following A. ... The period of Early Modern Globalisation is discerned by trade arrangements such as the East India Company, the shift of dominance to Western Europe and the rise of new commodities, particularly the slave trade. The Columbian Exchange also significantly encouraged globalisation between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including the distribution of newly introduced flora and fauna by Christopher Columbus in 1492. ... He believed that "the Earth revolves about the sun"...

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