Direction Read the passage given below and answer the following questions.

Globalisation involves the travel of more people to farther parts of the world. Satellite broadcast brings world events to an increasingly global audience: the internet knits together educated sections of world societies.

Advanced technologies have been converting the world into a small place where different institutions perform functions as part of one system and social groups with different socio-economic backgrounds share a common understanding of living together on one planet. Regarding the historical background of globalisation, most scholars point to sixteenth-century Europe.

They state that it was the Europeans who were responsible for the growth of trade and commerce across countries. Although the economic, cultural and world system was shaped five centuries ago, the intense globalisation started in the nineteenth century.