“just as technology spurred globalization”
Come on, man!...It’s not like politics didn’t enable it just as much.
you can see the same in 1700 BC when technology of better shipping enabled vast commercial links between Egypt, Crete, Myceanean Greece, Anatolia, the Hittite empire, Assyria, BAbylonia, Elam, the Indus Valley
you see it also with the better ships of the europeans in the years 1400 to 1700, then steam ships etc.
The US was the foremost proponent of globalization in the 20th century as the US after WWII was the only real manufacturing power and needed places to sell to. Globalization is nothing more than an expansion of the initial trade between city states.