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(1st millennium AD - 2nd millennium AD - 3rd millennium AD - other millennia)

Events:

• The Renaissance
• The Protestant Reformation
• The start of the Industrial revolution
• The rise of nationalism and the modern nation state
• European colonization of the Americas, Africa and elsewhere
• Two World Wars (I and II)
• Creation of the United Nations

Significant persons:

• Thomas Aquinas, theologian
• Genghis Khan, Mongolian conqueror
• Martin Luther, religious reformer
• René Descartes, philosopher and mathematician
• Isaac Newton, scientist
• Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor
• Napoleon Bonaparte, French conqueror and emperor
• Abraham Lincoln, American president
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, American president
• Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
• Karl Marx, political philosopher
• Adolf Hitler, German dictator
• Albert Einstein, physicist

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions:

• The Printing press
• Gunpowder
• The Internet
• The Steam engine
• The discovery of the Scientific method
• Nuclear Power
• Space travel
• The internal combustion engine
• Capitalism and socialism
• The Computer

Centuries and Decades