<imagemap>File:2nd millennium montage.png|From left, clockwise: In
1492,
Italian navigator
Christopher Columbus; The
American Revolution; The
French Revolution; The
Atomic Bomb from
World War II; An alternate source of light, the
Light Bulb; For the first time, a
human being sets foot on the moon in 1969 during the
Apollo 11 moon mission;
Aeroplanes become the most-used way of transport though the skies;
Napoleon Bonaparte, in the early 19th century, affects France and Europe on subjects of
expansionism and
modernization;
Alexander Graham Bell's
telephone; In 1348, the
Black Death kills over 100 million people worldwide, and over half of
Europe, in two years. (Background: An excerpt from the
Gutenberg Bible, the first major book printed in the West using movable type, in the 1450s)|500px|thumb rect 3 3 253 191
New World rect 259 5 438 123
American Revolution rect 445 4 559 159
French Revolution rect 260 129 438 249
Black Death rect 5 212 110 375
Napoleon Bonaparte rect 129 197 253 299
Telephone rect 123 309 257 386
aeroplanes rect 268 257 432 379
Moon landing rect 446 165 560 296
Atomic Bomb rect 440 303 514 387
Light Bulb rect 1 1 566 394
Gutenberg Bible </imagemap>