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In our MTV culture, image and the moment are everything. Context and history are usually ignored. The end of the millennium, however, provided an impetus for The World & I to step back and reexamine the most significant developments of the past millennium.

Our 16-part collection is titled “Millennial Moments,” but strictly speaking it discusses millennial processes. These are highlighted by key events and characters, with an emphasis on their consequences, in particular how they have helped make our world what it is today.

We examine both transformations that have changed our material environment--such as the scientific and Industrial revolutions--and those that have changed our way of thinking about ourselves and our place in the world--for example, the rise of limited government or the Reformation and its consequences.

Through this collection we hope to promote a better understanding of how and how much the world has changed in the past millennium and how those changes have made us who we are. Through such understanding we believe that we will be better able to consider future change and evaluate more clearly the question, Change toward what?

Here, for AOL@SCHOOL users, we present four articles from this major collection.

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	Columbus and the Age of Exploration Christopher Columbus is an unlikely figure to be considered the discoverer of America and the leading symbol of European exploration overseas. When he made landfall somewhere in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492, he was not the first mariner to have made the crossing from Europe. …
	The Rise of Protestantism A curious but significant byproduct of the Protestant Reformation was moral support for what became middle-class modernity. This connection is particularly remarkable inasmuch as reformers Martin Luther and John Calvin sought to restore a Christian community…
	From Movable Type to Data Deluge Marshall McLuhan--the pundit best known for his slogan "the medium is the message"--described the information age as an age of "all-at-onceness," in which space and time are overcome by television, jets, and computers. In such an all-at-once world, linear…
	The Renaissance Mind Mirrored in Art This article aims to outline some basic changes in worldview that took place during the Renaissance--a movement and an era of awakening that turned from the medieval order and laid the basis for Western civilization up to the present…