The world had experienced a considerable influence of the globalization phenomenon by the 1500 CE. There were several factors which caused majority of the societies to enhance their interactive initiatives, and form international links. Leif Ericson by that era had become the pioneering European explorer to land on the North American shores. He was able to discover the continent over 500 years, before Christopher Columbus arrived in the region. The great Norwegian explorer had formed the first Norse colonies in Greenland, and had made considerable explorations in the new world. Marco Polo the Venetian merchant explorer had also ...