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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So it's hard to argue otherwise because of the rapid increase in communication
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But I'll say the Spanish American war probably gets there first
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It really did have a non-euro power curb stomp a (admittedly declined) monarchy, really setting the tone for the 20th century
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And the showcasing of American imperialism in the Pacific really wouldn't have been missed by anyone paying attention
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There's that, and also, I think in the prequel trilogy to the Cold War, the movies are the Spanish-American War, WW1, and the Russian Revolution/Great Patriotic War
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America Ascendant, Europe's Demise, and the Soviet Union rising out of the whole mess? Yeah, WW1 is really just the middle movie of the whole mess
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Did anyone anywhere in Asia notice the Spanish American war? By that loose standard the Great Game in Afghanistan and the Opium Wars would also qualify.
I think WWI was first in a clear way: direct impact/involvement of every major region, not just 2nd order effects.
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Well, half the world... the inter caetera had the effect of weirdly segregating Spanish and Portuguese zones from age of exploration, and except for Philippines I’d guess the eastern hemisphere basically didn’t notice
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