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
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
human being
sets foot on the moon
in 1969 during the
Apollo 11
moon mission;
airplanes
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)
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