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= GLOBALIZATION =

__WHAT IS IT?__
During the twentieth century, an increasingly dense web of political relationships, economic transactions, and cultural influences cut across the world's many peoples, countries, and regions, binding them more tightly, but also more contentiously, together. By the 1990s, this process of accelerating engagement among distant peoples was widely known as globalization.

Strayer, Robert W. __Ways of the World: A Global History__ pgs. 723-724.

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