全球化时代应该从1492年哥伦布发现美洲算起。在那一年,从两三百万年前诞生以后就分散到世界各地,而且往往互相隔绝的人类实现了最后的会合。随之而来的是探险的热潮(地理大发现)与贸易的热潮(商业革命),终于导致了工业革命和资本主义。世界上各个部分从此走上了马克思与恩格斯所说的“相互依存与相互作用’,越来越紧密的时代。到四百年以后,也就是19世纪末年,地理学家们声称:世界地图已经绘制完毕,地球上再没有什么重要的空白了。从此以后,人们就只能把世界看成一个有限的球体。它的各个组成部分都密切相关,离开整体 The era of globalization should start with the discovery of America in 1492 by Columbus. That year, it was scattered all over the world from its birth two or three million years ago, and mankind, often isolated from each other, finally met. What followed was a boom in exploration (geographical discovery) and a boom in trade (the commercial revolution) that finally led to the industrial revolution and capitalism. From then on, the various parts of the world embarked on an “increasingly interdependent and interdependent” era as Marx and Engels called it. Four hundred years later, in the late 19th century, geographers claimed that the map of the world After drawing, there is no important blank on Earth, and since then people have been able to view the world as a finite sphere whose components are all closely related and leave the whole