I'm a little bit of an amateur historian, so I've spent some time going back, trying to see the first mention of this kind of thing. And the best, earliest quote that I could find was one from David Livingstone, writing in the 1850s about how the railroad, the steam ship, and the telegraph were integrating East Africa perfectly with the rest of the world.
我或多或少是个业余历史学家，所以花了些时间 去追溯前人对全球化程度的评估，看看是谁首次 提出这种论调。我所找到最早的完整表述 是来自于大卫·利文斯顿， 写于1850年，谈论铁路、蒸汽船、 以及电报机，正完美地将东非 以及世界其它地方融合在一起。