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| * ], Mongolian conqueror | * ], Mongolian conqueror | ||
| * ], explorer | * ], Spanish explorer | ||
| * ], religious reformer | * ], German religious reformer | ||
| * ], philosopher and mathematician | * ], French philosopher and mathematician | ||
| * ], astronomer and mathematician | * ], French astronomer and mathematician | ||
| * ], scientist | * ], Italian scientist | ||
| * ], playwright and poet | * ], British playwright and poet | ||
| * ], scientist | * ], British scientist | ||
| * ], natural scientist | * ], British natural scientist | ||
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| * ], political philosopher | * ], German political philosopher | ||
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| * ], American president | * ], American president | ||
| * ], German dictator | * ], German dictator | ||
| * ], British prime minister | * ], British prime minister | ||
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| ==Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions== | ==Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions== | ||
Revision as of 18:18, 19 September 2004
(1st millennium – 2nd millennium – 3rd millennium – other millennia)
Events
- The Black Death
- Mongol Empires in Asia
- The Renaissance in Europe
- The Protestant Reformation
- The agricultural and industrial revolutions
- The rise of nationalism and the nation state
- European discovery of the Americas and Australia and their colonization
- European colonization and decolonization in Africa and Asia
- Population explosion
- World-spanning wars (Seven Years' War, French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars, World War I, World War II)
- Capitalism and Communism
Significant persons
- Thomas Aquinas, German theologian
- Genghis Khan, Mongolian conqueror
- Christopher Columbus, Spanish explorer
- Martin Luther, German religious reformer
- René Descartes, French philosopher and mathematician
- Nicholas Copernicus, French astronomer and mathematician
- Galileo Galilei, Italian scientist
- William Shakespeare, British playwright and poet
- Isaac Newton, British scientist
- Charles Darwin, British natural scientist
- Benjamin Franklin, American founding father and scientist
- Thomas Jefferson, American founding father and president
- Napoleon Bonaparte, French conqueror and emperor
- Abraham Lincoln, American president
- Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor
- Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
- Karl Marx, German political philosopher
- Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, Soviet leaders
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, American president
- Adolf Hitler, German dictator
- Winston Churchill, British prime minister
- Albert Einstein, Jewish physicist
Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions
- The Printing press
- Gunpowder
- The Steam engine
- The discovery of the scientific method
- Theory of evolution
- The discovery of genetics and DNA
- Calculus
- Human Flight
- Nuclear Power
- Space travel and mankind's first flight to the moon
- The internal combustion engine
- Capitalism and socialism
- The computer and the Internet
- Women's suffrage