Commodity Prices

	Gold •10 mins	1,811.70	-1.70	-0.09%
	Platinum •10 mins	844.70	+7.90	+0.94%
	WTI Crude •11 mins	40.63	+0.34	+0.84%
	Gasoline •11 mins	1.270	+0.022	+1.79%
	Ethanol •12 hours	1.233	-0.097	-7.29%
	Silver •10 mins	19.73	+0.20	+1.02%

		Silver • 10 mins	19.73	+0.20	+1.02%
		Copper • 10 mins	2.921	-0.012	-0.41%
		Brent Crude • 11 mins	43.21	+0.31	+0.72%
		Natural Gas • 11 mins	1.756	+0.010	+0.57%
		Heating Oil • 10 mins	1.223	+0.002	+0.19%

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Valerie Hansen

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Valerie Hansen is the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, where she teaches Chinese and world history. This essay is based on the prologue of her most recent book, The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began, published by Simon + Schuster. She is also the author of The Silk Road: A New History and The Open Empire.

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The Origins Of Globalization

Published 28 April 2020 | viewed 1,861 times

Globalization started much earlier than you might expect – in AD 1000. That is when, as incontrovertible archeological evidence shows, the Vikings left their home…