Anyone want to challenge the proposition that World War 1 was the first event to have a global common-knowledge consciousness impact? Ie it didn’t just affect all parts of the world; all parts of the world were aware/conscious of it affecting all parts of the world *at the time*
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Then it’s simply the matter of pinpointing the first time in history when international news could reach and be broadly comprehensible to the critical mass of world elites.

