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| | Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 2nd millennium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | The 2nd millennium saw an accelerating series of initiatives from European Cultures to expand and organize in all directions. |
| | It was to be followed by ever longer expeditions of discovery, conquest and colonization, up to a point near the end of the millennium where the majority of the land on Earth belonged to a handful of European nations. |
| | Economic and cultural integration came with forced political unification, and all the basic cultural features of Western civilization were to be adopted by non-european cultures, from writing in many cases, to calendar, clothing style, music, economic mechanisms, technology, weaponry, political ideologies, so much that it seemed humanity was actually blending into a uniform global culture. |
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