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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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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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