In his book "The World is Flat", Thomas Friedman outlines the process by which the he believes the world is shrinking and flattening through globalization.The focus of my timeline is to highlight a few political events mentioned in his book that were either a cause or an effect of the flattening process. All sources:Friedman, T.L.(2007).The World is Flat (3rd ed.).New York: Picador/ Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.