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spoke different languages, ate different foods, wore different clothes, and had different traditions. As technology became more advanced, things such as transportation and communication became quicker and easier. Today, all someone needs to do to talk to people from around the world is pick up a phone or click on to a computer.Traveling halfway around the globe now takes hours instead of months, and is relatively safe. Globalization describes the process of connecting different parts of the world. Sometimes a certain part of the world will be more affected

During the fifteenth century, European explorers reached the shores of the American continents, one milestone in the early process of connecting people from distant lands. This print shows Christopher Columbus saying goodbye to Spain’s Queen Isabella at the start of his first voyage west in 1492, when he reached the Americas.

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