ABSTRACT
Globalization is by now a clearly acknowledged phenomenon. Globalization can be said to have been taking place from the time of the hunter-gatherers to the present. With the coming of civilizations, division by dynasties became the marker, with later historians also constructing kingdoms to set off different periods. Political, social, and cultural consequences are of equal importance. Increasing integrations of states, such as the European Union, mark a regional advance, with the resultant federation then able to deal with the challenges of globalization in a more unified fashion. As Edmund Burke classically argued, reform should come gradually, whereas revolution rends the entire fabric of society. Some decades after 1789, Thomas Carlyle spoke of the Industrial Revolution as ending feudal society and preparing the way for industrial society. Technological advances fostered the process of globalization, bringing humankind to greater interconnectivity and interdependence.
