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The proudly independent states found themselves interdependent as never before, increasingly bound in one economic web, and forming a vast theater of interrelated politics, wars, law, literature, and art.
The above quotation could be a description penned in 2005 of the current trend of globalization. But it isn’t.
It’s a description, written by historian Will Durant in 1957 [2], of Europe in the mid-16th century.