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211 relations: AD 500, AD 502, Agronomy, Ah Suytok Tutul Xiu, Alaric II, Alodia, Americas, Anastasius I Dicorus, Anno Domini, Aquitaine, Archangel ivory, Asuka period, Augustine of Canterbury, Austrian National Library, Backgammon, Baekje, Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Battle of Camlann, Battle of Vouillé, Belisarius, Benedict of Nursia, Bengali calendars, Boethius, Bombyx mori, Book of Genesis, Borzuya, British Museum, Brittany, Bubonic plague, Buddhism, Bumin Qaghan, Byzantine Empire, Caledonia, Calendar, Cassiodorus, Cathedral, Catholic Church, Central America, Central Asia, Chaturanga, Chen dynasty, Chess, Chinese characters, Chinese language, Christianity, Classical antiquity, Clovis I, Columba, Common Era, Constantinople, ... Expand index (161 more) »
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AD 500
Year 500 (D) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
AD 502
Year 502 (DII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Agronomy
Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants by agriculture for food, fuel, fiber, chemicals, recreation, or land conservation.
Ah Suytok Tutul Xiu
Ah Suytok Tutul Xiu or Ah Zuytok Tutul Xiu was the spiritual leader of the Maya Tutul Xiu people.
See 6th century and Ah Suytok Tutul Xiu
Alaric II
Alaric II (𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃, Alareiks, "ruler of all"; Alaricus; – August 507) was the King of the Visigoths from 484 until 507.
Alodia
Alodia, also known as Alwa (Αρουα, Aroua; علوة, ʿAlwa), was a medieval kingdom in what is now central and southern Sudan.
Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
Anastasius I Dicorus
Anastasius I Dicorus (Anastásios; – 9 July 518) was Eastern Roman emperor from 491 to 518.
See 6th century and Anastasius I Dicorus
Anno Domini
The terms anno Domini. (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
See 6th century and Anno Domini
Aquitaine
Aquitaine (Aquitània; Akitania; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Aguiéne), archaic Guyenne or Guienne (Guiana), is a historical region of Southwestern France and a former administrative region.
Archangel ivory
The Archangel ivory is the largest surviving Byzantine ivory panel, now in the British Museum in London.
See 6th century and Archangel ivory
Asuka period
The was a period in the history of Japan lasting from 538 to 710, although its beginning could be said to overlap with the preceding Kofun period.
See 6th century and Asuka period
Augustine of Canterbury
Augustine of Canterbury (early 6th century – most likely 26 May 604) was a Christian monk who became the first archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597.
See 6th century and Augustine of Canterbury
Austrian National Library
The Austrian National Library (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) is the largest library in Austria, with more than 12 million items in its various collections.
See 6th century and Austrian National Library
Backgammon
Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards.
See 6th century and Backgammon
Baekje
Baekje or Paekche was a Korean kingdom located in southwestern Korea from 18 BC to 660 AD.
Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe
The Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe ("Saint Apollinaris in Classe") is a church in Classe, Ravenna, Italy, consecrated on 9 May 549 by the bishop Maximian and dedicated to Saint Apollinaris, the first bishop of Ravenna and Classe.
See 6th century and Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe
Battle of Camlann
The Battle of Camlann (Gwaith Camlan or Brwydr Camlan) is the legendary final battle of King Arthur, in which Arthur either died or was fatally wounded while fighting either alongside or against Mordred, who also perished.
See 6th century and Battle of Camlann
Battle of Vouillé
The Battle of Vouillé (from Latin Campus Vogladensis) was fought in the northern marches of Visigothic territory, at Vouillé, near Poitiers (Gaul), around Spring 507 between the Franks, commanded by Clovis, and the Visigoths, commanded by Alaric II.
See 6th century and Battle of Vouillé
Belisarius
Belisarius (Βελισάριος; The exact date of his birth is unknown. – 565) was a military commander of the Byzantine Empire under the emperor Justinian I. Belisarius was instrumental in the reconquest of much of the Mediterranean territory belonging to the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost less than a century prior.
See 6th century and Belisarius
Benedict of Nursia
Benedict of Nursia (Benedictus Nursiae; Benedetto da Norcia; 2 March 480 – 21 March 547), often known as Saint Benedict, was an Italian Catholic monk.
See 6th century and Benedict of Nursia
Bengali calendars
The Bengali Calendar or Bangla Calendar (Baṅgābda), colloquially (Baṅgla Śon), is a solar calendar used in the Bengal region of the South Asia.
See 6th century and Bengali calendars
Boethius
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, commonly known simply as Boethius (Latin: Boetius; 480–524 AD), was a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, polymath, historian, and philosopher of the Early Middle Ages.
Bombyx mori
Bombyx mori, commonly known as the domestic silk moth, is a moth species belonging to the family Bombycidae.
See 6th century and Bombyx mori
Book of Genesis
The Book of Genesis (from Greek; בְּרֵאשִׁית|Bərēʾšīṯ|In beginning; Liber Genesis) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.
See 6th century and Book of Genesis
Borzuya
Borzuya (or Burzōē or Burzōy or Borzouyeh) was a Persian physician in the late Sasanian era, at the time of Khosrow I. He translated the Indian Panchatantra from Sanskrit into Pahlavi (Middle Persian).
British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.
See 6th century and British Museum
Brittany
Brittany (Bretagne,; Breizh,; Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.
Bubonic plague
Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
See 6th century and Bubonic plague
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Bumin Qaghan
Bumin Qaghan (Bumïn qaγan, also known as Illig Qaghan (Chinese: 伊利可汗, Pinyin: Yīlì Kèhán, Wade–Giles: i-li k'o-han) or Yamï Qaghan (Yаmï qaγan, died 552 AD) was the founder of the Turkic Khaganate. He was the eldest son of Ashina Tuwu (吐務 / 吐务).
See 6th century and Bumin Qaghan
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
See 6th century and Byzantine Empire
Caledonia
Caledonia was the Latin name used by the Roman Empire to refer to the part of Scotland that lies north of the River Forth, which includes most of the land area of Scotland.
Calendar
A calendar is a system of organizing days.
Cassiodorus
Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 485 – c. 585), commonly known as Cassiodorus, was a Christian, Roman statesman, renowned scholar of antiquity, and writer serving in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths.
See 6th century and Cassiodorus
Cathedral
A cathedral is a church that contains the of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
See 6th century and Catholic Church
Central America
Central America is a subregion of North America.
See 6th century and Central America
Central Asia
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.
See 6th century and Central Asia
Chaturanga
Chaturanga (चतुरङ्ग) is an ancient Indian strategy board game.
See 6th century and Chaturanga
Chen dynasty
The Chen dynasty, alternatively known as the Southern Chen (南陳 / 南朝陳) in historiography, was a Chinese imperial dynasty and the fourth and last of the Southern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties period.
See 6th century and Chen dynasty
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players.
Chinese characters
Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture.
See 6th century and Chinese characters
Chinese language
Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.
See 6th century and Chinese language
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
See 6th century and Christianity
Classical antiquity
Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.
See 6th century and Classical antiquity
Clovis I
Clovis (Chlodovechus; reconstructed Frankish: *Hlōdowig; – 27 November 511) was the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Franks under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group of petty kings to rule by a single king and ensuring that the kingship was passed down to his heirs.
Columba
Columba or Colmcille (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission.
Common Era
Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.
See 6th century and Common Era
Constantinople
Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330.
See 6th century and Constantinople
Dark Ages (historiography)
The Dark Ages is a term for the Early Middle Ages (–10th centuries), or occasionally the entire Middle Ages (–15th centuries), in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, which characterises it as marked by economic, intellectual, and cultural decline.
See 6th century and Dark Ages (historiography)
Diamond
Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic.
Dionysius Exiguus
Dionysius Exiguus (Latin for "Dionysius the Humble"; Greek: Διονύσιος; –) was a 6th-century Eastern Roman monk born in Scythia Minor.
See 6th century and Dionysius Exiguus
Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
Elephanta Caves
The Elephanta Caves are a collection of cave temples predominantly dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva, which have been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
See 6th century and Elephanta Caves
Ellora Caves
The Ellora Caves are a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Aurangabad district, Maharashtra, India (now renamed to Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar district).
See 6th century and Ellora Caves
Emperor
The word emperor (from imperator, via empereor) can mean the male ruler of an empire.
Emperor Gaozu of Tang
Emperor Gaozu of Tang (7 April 566 – 25 June 635), born Li Yuan, courtesy name Shude, was the founding emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, reigning from 618 to 626.
See 6th century and Emperor Gaozu of Tang
Famine
A famine is a widespread scarcity of food caused by several possible factors, including, but not limited to war, natural disasters, crop failure, widespread poverty, an economic catastrophe or government policies.
Filioque
Filioque, a Latin term meaning "and from the Son", was added to the original Nicene Creed, and has been the subject of great controversy between Eastern and Western Christianity.
First Turkic Khaganate
The First Turkic Khaganate, also referred to as the First Turkic Empire, Göktürk Khaganate, or the Turkic Khaganate (𐰃𐰓𐰃𐰆𐰴𐰽𐰔:𐰰𐰇𐰚:𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰), was a Turkic khaganate established by the Ashina clan of the Göktürks in medieval Inner Asia under the leadership of Bumin Qaghan (d.
See 6th century and First Turkic Khaganate
Franks
Aristocratic Frankish burial items from the Merovingian dynasty The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum;; Francs.) were a western European people during the Roman Empire and Middle Ages.
Funan
Funan (Hvunân,; Phù Nam, Chữ Hán: 夫南) was the name given by Chinese cartographers, geographers and writers to an ancient Indianized state—or, rather a loose network of states (Mandala)—located in mainland Southeast Asia covering parts of present-day Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam that existed from the first to sixth century CE.
Göktürks
The Göktürks, Celestial Turks or Blue Turks (Türük Bodun) were a Turkic people in medieval Inner Asia.
Genesis flood narrative
The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth.
See 6th century and Genesis flood narrative
Glendalough
Glendalough is a glacial valley in County Wicklow, Ireland, renowned for an Early Medieval monastic settlement founded in the 6th century by St Kevin.
See 6th century and Glendalough
Gregorian calendar
The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world.
See 6th century and Gregorian calendar
Gundeshapur
Gundeshapur (𐭥𐭧𐭩𐭠𐭭𐭣𐭩𐭥𐭪𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩, Weh-Andiōk-Šābuhr; New Persian: گندیشاپور, Gondēshāpūr) was the intellectual centre of the Sassanid Empire and the home of the Academy of Gundeshapur, founded by Sassanid Emperor Shapur I. Gundeshapur was home to a teaching hospital and had a library and a centre of higher learning.
See 6th century and Gundeshapur
Gupta
Gupta is a common surname or last name of Indian origin.
Gupta Empire
The Gupta Empire was an ancient Indian empire on the Indian subcontinent which existed from the mid 3rd century CE to mid 6th century CE.
See 6th century and Gupta Empire
Haniwa
The are terracotta clay figures that were made for ritual use and buried with the dead as funerary objects during the Kofun period (3rd to 6th centuries AD) of the history of Japan.
Hippodrome of Constantinople
The Hippodrome of Constantinople (Hippódromos tēs Kōnstantinoupóleōs; Circus Maximus Constantinopolitanus; Hipodrom), was a circus that was the sporting and social centre of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.
See 6th century and Hippodrome of Constantinople
Historical Vedic religion
The historical Vedic religion, also known as Vedicism and Vedism, sometimes called "Ancient Hinduism", constituted the religious ideas and practices prevalent amongst the Indo-Aryan peoples of the northwest Indian subcontinent (Punjab and the western Ganges plain) during the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE).
See 6th century and Historical Vedic religion
History of China
The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area.
See 6th century and History of China
History of India
Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago.
See 6th century and History of India
Hormizd IV
Hormizd IV (also spelled Hormozd IV or Ohrmazd IV; 𐭠𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭬𐭦𐭣) was the Sasanian King of Kings of Iran from 579 to 590.
See 6th century and Hormizd IV
Huna people
Hunas or Huna (Middle Brahmi script: Hūṇā) was the name given by the ancient Indians to a group of Central Asian tribes who, via the Khyber Pass, entered the Indian subcontinent at the end of the 5th or early 6th century.
See 6th century and Huna people
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Iona
Iona (Ì Chaluim Chille, sometimes simply Ì) is an island in the Inner Hebrides, off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of Scotland.
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Jataka tales
The Jātaka (Sanskrit for "Birth-Related" or "Birth Stories") are a voluminous body of literature native to the Indian subcontinent which mainly concern the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form.
See 6th century and Jataka tales
Jñānagupta
Jñānagupta (Sanskrit: ज्ञानगुप्त) was a Buddhist monk from Gandhara who travelled to China and was recognised by Emperor Wen of the Sui dynasty.
See 6th century and Jñānagupta
Jesus
Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.
Jogeshwari Caves
The Jogeshwari Caves are some of the earliest Hinduism cave temple sculptures located in the Mumbai suburb of Jogeshwari, India.
See 6th century and Jogeshwari Caves
Julian calendar
The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception).
See 6th century and Julian calendar
Justin I
Justin I (Iustinus; Ioustînos; 450 – 1 August 527), also called Justin the Thracian (Justinus Thrax; Ioustînos ho Thrâix), was Eastern Roman emperor from 518 to 527.
Justinian I
Justinian I (Iūstīniānus,; Ioustinianós,; 48214 November 565), also known as Justinian the Great, was the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565.
See 6th century and Justinian I
Kevin of Glendalough
Kevin (Caoimhín; Cóemgen, Caemgen; Latinized Coemgenus; 498 (reputedly)–3 June 618) is an Irish saint, known as the founder and first abbot of Glendalough in County Wicklow, Ireland.
See 6th century and Kevin of Glendalough
Khosrow I
Khosrow I (also spelled Khosrau, Khusro or Chosroes; 𐭧𐭥𐭮𐭫𐭥𐭣𐭩; New Persian: خسرو), traditionally known by his epithet of Anushirvan (انوشيروان "the Immortal Soul"), was the Sasanian King of Kings of Iran from 531 to 579.
King Arthur
King Arthur (Brenin Arthur, Arthur Gernow, Roue Arzhur, Roi Arthur), according to legends, was a king of Britain.
See 6th century and King Arthur
Kingdom of the Suebi
The Kingdom of the Suebi (Regnum Suevorum), also called the Kingdom of Galicia (Regnum Galicia) or Suebi Kingdom of Galicia (Galicia suevorum regnum), was a Germanic post-Roman kingdom that was one of the first to separate from the Roman Empire.
See 6th century and Kingdom of the Suebi
Kofun period
The is an era in the history of Japan from about 300 to 538 AD (the date of the introduction of Buddhism), following the Yayoi period.
See 6th century and Kofun period
Kongō Gumi
is a Japanese construction company, purportedly founded in 578 A.D., making it the world's oldest documented company.
See 6th century and Kongō Gumi
Kyoto
Kyoto (Japanese: 京都, Kyōto), officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu.
Legend
A legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions, believed or perceived to have taken place in human history.
Lombards
The Lombards or Longobards (Longobardi) were a Germanic people who conquered most of the Italian Peninsula between 568 and 774.
London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Maharashtra
Maharashtra (ISO: Mahārāṣṭra) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau.
See 6th century and Maharashtra
Makuria
Makuria (Old Nubian: ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟ, Dotawo; Makouria; al-Muqurra) was a medieval Nubian kingdom in what is today northern Sudan and southern Egypt.
Match
A match is a tool for starting a fire.
Maurice (emperor)
Maurice (Mauricius;; 539 – 27 November 602) was Byzantine emperor from 582 to 602 and the last member of the Justinian dynasty.
See 6th century and Maurice (emperor)
Maya civilization
The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period.
See 6th century and Maya civilization
Medicine
Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health.
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD. 6th century and Middle Ages are 1st millennium.
See 6th century and Middle Ages
Monastery
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).
Monte Cassino
Monte Cassino (today usually spelled Montecassino) is a rocky hill about southeast of Rome, in the Latin Valley, Italy, west of Cassino and at an elevation of.
See 6th century and Monte Cassino
Muhammad
Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.
Mundus (magister militum)
Mundus or Mundo (Μοῦνδος; Moundos, Mundo; died 536) was a Barbarian commander of Gepid, Hun, and/or Gothic origins.
See 6th century and Mundus (magister militum)
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
Nicene Creed
The Nicene Creed (Sýmvolon tis Nikéas), also called the Creed of Constantinople, is the defining statement of belief of mainstream Christianity and in those Christian denominations that adhere to it.
See 6th century and Nicene Creed
Nika riots
The Nika riots (translit), Nika revolt or Nika sedition took place against Byzantine emperor Justinian I in Constantinople over the course of a week in 532 CE.
See 6th century and Nika riots
Nobatia
Nobatia or Nobadia (Greek: Νοβαδία, Nobadia; Old Nubian: ⲙⲓⲅⲛ̅Migin or ⲙⲓⲅⲓⲧⲛ︦ ⲅⲟⲩⲗ, Migitin Goul lit. "of Nobadia's land") was a late antique kingdom in Lower Nubia.
North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
See 6th century and North Africa
North India
North India, also called Northern India, is a geographical and broad cultural region comprising the northern part of India (or historically, the Indian subcontinent) wherein Indo-Aryans form the prominent majority population.
See 6th century and North India
Northern and Southern dynasties
The Northern and Southern dynasties was a period of political division in the history of China that lasted from 420 to 589, following the tumultuous era of the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Eastern Jin dynasty.
See 6th century and Northern and Southern dynasties
Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.
See 6th century and Northern Hemisphere
On the Consolation of Philosophy
On the Consolation of Philosophy (De consolatione philosophiae), often titled as The Consolation of Philosophy or simply the Consolation, is a philosophical work by the Roman philosopher Boethius.
See 6th century and On the Consolation of Philosophy
Ostrogoths
The Ostrogoths (Ostrogothi, Austrogothi) were a Roman-era Germanic people.
See 6th century and Ostrogoths
Palembang
Palembang (Palembang: Pelémbang, Jawi) is the capital city of the Indonesian province of South Sumatra.
Palestine (region)
The region of Palestine, also known as Historic Palestine, is a geographical area in West Asia.
See 6th century and Palestine (region)
Pandemic
A pandemic is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has a sudden increase in cases and spreads across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of individuals.
Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
See 6th century and Persian language
Plague of Justinian
The plague of Justinian or Justinianic plague (AD 541–549) was an epidemic that afflicted the entire Mediterranean Basin, Europe, and the Near East, severely affecting the Sasanian Empire and the Byzantine Empire, especially Constantinople.
See 6th century and Plague of Justinian
Pope Gregory I
Pope Gregory I (Gregorius I; – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death.
See 6th century and Pope Gregory I
Pope Pelagius II
Pope Pelagius II (died 7 February 590) was the bishop of Rome from 26 November 579 to his death.
See 6th century and Pope Pelagius II
Qimin Yaoshu
The Qimin Yaoshu, translated as the "Essential Techniques for the Welfare of the People", is the most completely preserved of the ancient Chinese agricultural texts, and was written by the Northern Wei Dynasty official Jia Sixie, a native of Shouguang, Shandong province, which is a major agricultural producing region.
See 6th century and Qimin Yaoshu
Ratna Pariksha
Ratna Pariksha is an ancient science on testing gemstones.
See 6th century and Ratna Pariksha
Reccared I
Reccared I (or Recared; Flavius Reccaredus; Flavio Recaredo; 559 – December 601; reigned 586–601) was Visigothic King of Hispania and Septimania.
See 6th century and Reccared I
Rock-cut architecture
Rock-cut architecture is the creation of structures, buildings, and sculptures by excavating solid rock where it naturally occurs.
See 6th century and Rock-cut architecture
Rome
Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.
Rouran Khaganate
The Rouran Khaganate, also known as Ruanruan or Juan-juan (or variously Jou-jan, Ruruan, Ju-juan, Ruru, Ruirui, Rouru, Rouruan or Tantan) was a tribal confederation and later state founded by a people of Proto-Mongolic Donghu origin.
See 6th century and Rouran Khaganate
Saint Catherine's Monastery
Saint Catherine's Monastery (دير القدّيسة كاترين), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Catherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.
See 6th century and Saint Catherine's Monastery
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Sasanian Empire
The Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, and officially known as Eranshahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.
See 6th century and Sasanian Empire
Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Scythians
The Scythians or Scyths (but note Scytho- in composition) and sometimes also referred to as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people who had migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where they remained established from the 7th century BC until the 3rd century BC.
Second Council of Constantinople
The Second Council of Constantinople is the fifth of the first seven ecumenical councils recognized by both the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church.
See 6th century and Second Council of Constantinople
Shah
Shah (شاه) is a royal title that was historically used by the leading figures of Indian and Iranian monarchies.
Shatranj
Shatranj (Arabic and Persian: شطرنج; from Middle Persian چترنگ) is an old form of chess, as played in the Sasanian Empire.
Shilpa Shastras
Shilpa Shastras (शिल्प शास्त्र) literally means the Science of Shilpa (arts and crafts).
See 6th century and Shilpa Shastras
Silk
Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.
Slavs
The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages.
Sui dynasty
The Sui dynasty was a short-lived Chinese imperial dynasty that ruled from 581 to 618.
See 6th century and Sui dynasty
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.
See 6th century and Tang dynasty
Technology
Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way.
See 6th century and Technology
Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan (Spanish: Teotihuacán) is an ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, which is located in the State of Mexico, northeast of modern-day Mexico City.
See 6th century and Teotihuacan
Third Council of Toledo
The Third Council of Toledo (589) marks the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church, and is known for codifying the filioque clause into Western Christianity.
See 6th century and Third Council of Toledo
Three Kingdoms of Korea
The Three Kingdoms of Korea or Samhan (Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla) competed for hegemony over the Korean Peninsula during the ancient period of Korean history.
See 6th century and Three Kingdoms of Korea
Three-Chapter Controversy
The Three-Chapter Controversy, a phase in the Chalcedonian controversy, was an attempt to reconcile the non-Chalcedonians of Syria and Egypt with Chalcedonian Christianity, following the failure of the Henotikon.
See 6th century and Three-Chapter Controversy
Toilet paper
Toilet paper (sometimes called toilet tissue, toilet roll, or bathroom tissue) is a tissue paper product primarily used to clean the anus and surrounding region of feces (after defecation), and to clean the external genitalia and perineal area of urine (after urination).
See 6th century and Toilet paper
Types of volcanic eruptions
Several types of volcanic eruptions—during which material is expelled from a volcanic vent or fissure—have been distinguished by volcanologists.
See 6th century and Types of volcanic eruptions
Uxmal
Uxmal (Yucatec Maya: Óoxmáal) is an ancient Maya city of the classical period located in present-day Mexico.
Vandals
The Vandals were a Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland.
Vienna
Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.
Vienna Genesis
The Vienna Genesis (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, cod. theol. gr. 31), designated by siglum L (Ralphs), is an illuminated manuscript, probably produced in Syria in the first half of the 6th century.
See 6th century and Vienna Genesis
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
Visigoths
The Visigoths (Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were a Germanic people united under the rule of a king and living within the Roman Empire during late antiquity.
Volcanic winter of 536
The volcanic winter of 536 was the most severe and protracted episode of climatic cooling in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 2,000 years.
See 6th century and Volcanic winter of 536
Weather
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.
Western culture
Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.
See 6th century and Western culture
Western Roman Empire
In modern historiography, the Western Roman Empire was the western provinces of the Roman Empire, collectively, during any period in which they were administered separately from the eastern provinces by a separate, independent imperial court.
See 6th century and Western Roman Empire
Wicklow
Wicklow (Cill Mhantáin, meaning 'church of the toothless one'; Víkingaló) is the county town of County Wicklow in Ireland.
Yan Zhitui
Yan Zhitui (531–591) courtesy name Jie was a Chinese calligrapher, painter, musician, writer, philosopher and politician who served four different Chinese states during the late Northern and Southern dynasties: the Liang dynasty in southern China, the Northern Qi and Northern Zhou dynasties of northern China, and their successor state that reunified China, the Sui dynasty.
See 6th century and Yan Zhitui
Zen
Zen (Japanese; from Chinese "Chán"; in Korean: Sŏn, and Vietnamese: Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as the Chan School (禪宗, chánzōng, "meditation school") or the Buddha-mind school (佛心宗, fóxīnzōng), and later developed into various sub-schools and branches.
Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism (Din-e Zartoshti), also known as Mazdayasna and Behdin, is an Iranian religion.
See 6th century and Zoroastrianism
501
Year 501 (DI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
507
Year 507 (DVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
518
Year 518 (DXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
522
Year 522 (DXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
524
Year 524 (DXXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) on the Julian calendar.
525
Year 525 (DXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
527
Year 527 (DXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
529
Year 529 (DXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
532
Year 532 (DXXXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
535
Year 535 (DXXXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
537
Year 537 (DXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
541
Year 541 (DXLI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
542
Year 542 (DXLII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
543
Year.
544
Year 544 (DXLIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
545
Year 545 (DXLV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
550
Year 550 (DL) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
551
Year 551 (DLI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
552
Year 552 (DLII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
553
Year 553 (DLIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
554
Year 554 (DLIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
561
Year 561 (DLXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
563
Year 563 (DLXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
566
566 (DLXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
568
Year 568 (DLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
569
Year 569 (DLXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
570
Year 570 (DLXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
574
Year 574 (DLXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
577
Year 577 (DLXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
578
Year 578 (DLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
579
Year 579 (DLXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
582
Year 582 (DLXXXII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
585
Year 585 (DLXXXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
587
Year 587 (DLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
588
Year 588 (DLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
589
Year 589 (DLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
590
Year 590 (DXC) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
592
Year 592 (DXCII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
594
Year 594 (DXCIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
595
Year 595 (DXCV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
600
600 (DC) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
602
Year 602 (DCII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
See also
1st millennium
- 10th century
- 1st century
- 1st millennium
- 2nd century
- 3rd century
- 4th century
- 5th century
- 6th century
- 7th century
- 8th century
- 9th century
- Late Woodland period
- Late antiquity
- Middle Ages
References
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