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World Service,28 Feb 2003,27 mins

Setting Sail from the Old World

A History of Globalisation

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Series looking at the history of globalisation. Today, how the search for maritime trading routes to the East, starting with Christopher Colombus in 1492, marked a fundamental difference between the outward-looking but less developed countries of Europe and the highly developed but inward-looking China.

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