<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>