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2nd millennium
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File:2nd millennium montage.png|From top left, clockwise: in 1492, [[Christopher Columbus]] reaches [[North America]], opening the [[European colonization of the Americas]]; the [[American Revolution]], one of the late 1700s [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]]-inspired [[Atlantic Revolutions]]; the [[Ottoman conquest of Constantinople]]; the [[Atomic Bomb]] from [[World War II]]; an alternate source of light, the [[light bulb]]; for the first time, a [[Neil Armstrong|human being]] [[Moon landing|sets foot on the Moon]] in 1969 during the [[Apollo 11]] Moon mission; [[airplane]]s enable widespread air travel; [[Napoleon Bonaparte]], in the early 19th century, affects France and Europe with [[expansionism]], [[modernization]], and [[nationalism]]; [[Alexander Graham Bell]]'s [[telephone]]; in 1348, the [[Black Death]] kills in just two years over 100 million people worldwide, and over half of [[Europe]]. (Background: An excerpt from the [[Gutenberg Bible]], the first major book printed in the West using movable type, in the 1450s)|500px|thumb
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The second millennium of the Anno Domini or Common Era was a millennium spanning the years 1001 to 2000. It began on 1 January 1001 (MI) and will end on 31 December 2000 (MM), (11th to 20th centuries; in astronomy: JD 2086667.5 – 2451909.5).
It encompassed the High and Late Middle Ages of the Old World, the Islamic Golden Age and the period of Renaissance, followed by the early modern period, characterized by the European wars of religion, the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Discovery and the colonial period.
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