The Entire History of the GLOBAL ECONOMY Explained: How The World Runs. Globalization Collapse? - 34,118 views Jul 15, 2024 Jack Chapple - today's economy is a marvel—a complex, well-oiled machine with absolutely no faults whatsoever. But have you ever questioned, why is the global economy, is the global economy. Why is it setup the way it is? - How how did we go from a society of trading goats, to one where the middle class person cant afford a 1 bedroom apartment in torontos. How did we get to a world of globalization? Well, This is Everything You will Ever Need to know about the History of the global economy: And its Incoming Collapse? - 2nd Channel:    / @chapple3388   - FAIR USE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES - Mirrored From: https://www.youtube.com/@JackChappleShow - Ah, antiquity—the time when humans decided that merely hunting and gathering was too easy and that it was high time they invented stress. So, they settled down, started farming, and unintentionally laid the foundation for globalization. Welcome to the Neolithic Revolution, the era when humans thought, "Wouldn't it be great if we didn't have to move around so much?" - Thus, agriculture was born, and with it, the seeds (pun intended) of global trade. Around 10,000 BC, in a stroke of genius or sheer laziness, humans began farming in the Fertile Crescent, a region that sounds a lot more comfortable than it actually was. This region, covering parts of modern-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, became the first to host large-scale agriculture. Grains like wheat and barley were domesticated, leading to surplus food and, consequently, the first economic boom. This surplus allowed some people to do things other than farming—like inventing pottery, weaving, and, most importantly, figuring out new ways to annoy their neighbors. Because when you have more grain than you can eat, you can trade it for shiny objects, and before you know it, you've got yourself an economy. - Now, with surplus food came the need to trade, because who wouldn't want to swap their extra grain for some pretty beads or a nice piece of obsidian? Trade routes sprang up, linking villages and, eventually, early cities. By 6000 BC, long-distance trade networks had formed, with luxury items like lapis lazuli traveling all the way from Afghanistan to Mesopotamia. That’s right, ancient humans were global traders long before the internet made it cool. Fast forward to around 3500 BC, and we have the rise of the first economic superpowers: Mesopotamia and Egypt. These civilizations weren't just farming anymore; they were building cities, inventing writing systems, and constructing monuments to remind future generations that they were indeed a big deal. In Mesopotamia, the Sumerians developed one of the earliest forms of writing—cuneiform—which, surprise, surprise, was used to keep track of trade and inventory. Meanwhile, in Egypt, the pharaohs were busy building pyramids and establishing trade networks that reached a