Globalization already existed in prehistory, tens of thousands of years ago, even if it took some time, because people traveled on foot back then. Talking about “Flanders” is a bit complicated. But the ten-part series The history of Flanders it has to start somewhere and the creators have come a long way, in the ice age, when northwestern Europe was still under an ice cap and the North Sea was a barren plain at best. As soon as it started to warm up, dark types arrived from Africa via the Near East: modern humans, homo sapiens, hunter-gatherers.
Even though there were already Indigenous residents, for which presenter Tom Waes says, “the other…
