Teotihuacan was in the middle centuries of the first millenium AD the largest city in the New World, and one of the largest in the World period (estimates rage as high as 125, 0000) and includes the New World's largest and arguably most famous pyramid temple, the Pyramid of the Sun.
Dr Cummins examined the fates of 1.3m European nobles, looking back as far as the first millenium AD.
Over the course of a millenium the resulting change is unimaginably significant.
Until the start of the millenium China, the world's biggest producer of many commodities, was largely self-sufficient or even a modest exporter.
Indeed, half a millenium ago Europe might justly have been considered a laggard.
These include a bladebuilder jedi master lightsaber (£50), a LEGO Kylo Ren shuttle (£100), and a miniature millenium Falcon (£120).
A friend writes: Not long ago, I wrote a piece for this page about the line halfway between the pole and the equator; the millenium; and the conflict in South Africa.
In "Difficult Men," GQ correspondent Brett Martin traces the rise of what he calls the "Third Golden Age of Television," which began with "The Sopranos" and, through the proliferation of high-quality serialized cables drama at the turn of the millenium, turned TV from an "artistic dead zone" into "the signature American art form of the first decade of the 21st century".
This novel follows the lives of two immigrants who end up in Seattle to follow their different American dreams at the turn of the millenium: a Hungarian-born English intellectual and a Chinese man who entered the country illegally.
While you may best know manhandling-Baldwin from his assault on a paparazzo in New York last week, or when he punched a Daily News photographer last year, this behavior dates all the way back to the last millenium.
The millenium bug has become a worn-out cliché, but software consultancies will continue to reap the benefits of Year 2000 for at least another 18 months.
