Globalization Score Card — How are we faring, as a species?

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Globalization arguably began at the end of the Iron Age when tribes and peoples nurtured regular trading of goods. The Mesopotamian Shekel, the first real currency, came into being around 3000 BCE and our earliest records of financial loans date to 2000 BCE. Both were precursors to The Silk Road. Globalization leaped forward after the great age of discovery, when the European powers…