The study of globalization is long and complicated. Referring to globalization in terms of Archaic, Proto and Modern is not useful because doing so contributes to the myth of globalization forged exclusively by dramatic new connections by Europeans in the face of an ever diminishing role of older connections. I will define each phase of globalization relative to the current model, the impetus of each phase of globalization in terms of older models in both India and China, and finally how the British Empire took advantage of these pre-existing connections to bring about modern globalization in both India and China; all in the hope of dispelling the Eurocentrism present in the current explanation of globalization. To examine each phase of globalization in terms of the other, it is necessary to first understand each phase in terms of its defining characteristics. Archaic globalization is characterized by trade networks that arise from local rulers and rulers sending missions to acquire wealth and exotic goods.1 Proto-globalization promotes a complex model of multilateral trade through the exchange of raw materials on a globalized scale. Proto-globalization also involves the growth of finance, services, and improved efficiency in the transaction sector.2 Modern globalization is the rise of industrialization and the modern nation state often expressed through imperialism. The historiography of globalization should not be studied like most other historical events, through the system of chronology. When we study the chronology of events, including globalization, we move seamlessly from one event to the next, assuming that the former does not continue to operate and shape the latter. Within this myth of the lack of inter... document ......urnal (2012): 1-26. Accessed 17 November 2013. http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/45724/1/MPRA_paper_45724.pdf “Opium Financed British Rule in India”, BBC News, 23 February 2008. Accessed 17 November 2013. http ://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/7460682.stm#blq-main Silk Road Map. Map. China Travel Guide. Accessed November 17, 2013. http://www.travelchinaguide.com/silk-road/route.htm. Singh, Abhay Jumar. Modern world system and Indian protoindustrialization: Bengal 1650-1800. New Delhi: Northern Brooks Center, 2006. The Opium Trade in China. Map. The First Opium War: The Anglo-Chinese War of 1839-1842. Accessed November 17, 2013, http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/opium_wars_01/ow1_essay02.htmlVan de Ven,Hans. “The surge of modern globalization in China.” In Globalization in World History, edited by AG Hopkins, 167-196. New York: W. W. Norton & Company,2002.