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6th century BC. The 6th century BC started on the first day of 600 BC and ended on the last day of 501 BC. In Western Asia, the first half of this century was dominated by the Neo-Babylonian Empire, which had risen to power late in the previous century after successfully rebelling against Assyrian rule.
List of decades, centuries, and millennia. The list below includes links to articles with further details for each decade, century, and millennium from 15,000 BC to AD 3000. Century. Decades. 15th millennium BC · 15,000–14,001 BC. 14th millennium BC · 14,000–13,001 BC. 13th millennium BC · 13,000–12,001 BC. 12th millennium BC · 12,000 ...
c. 7th century BCE – c. 4th century BCE Matsya kingdom: 1180–318 BC Panchala: 700–323 BC Pandya kingdom: 1350–460 BC Parvata kingdom: c. 9th century – 325 BC Persian Empire: 549–330 BC Pundra kingdom: 1300 BC – 550 AD Shakya Republic: 800–320 BC Sindhu kingdom: 800–320 BC Sinhala kingdom: 700–543 BC Surasena: 1000–323 BC ...
Udayana was the ruler of Vatsa in the 6th-5th century BCE. He was very powerful, warlike and fond of hunting. Initially king Udayana was opposed to Buddhism, but later became a follower of Buddha and made Buddhism the state religion. Udayana's mother, Queen Mrigavati, is notable for being one of the earliest known female rulers in Indian history.
Sanjaya Belatthiputta (7th-6th century BCE) Śāriputra (6th century BCE) Seneca the Younger, (c. 4 BC-AD 65) Shang Yang (or Gongsun Yang), (d. 338 BC) Shvetaketu,(9th century BCE) Shen Buhai, (d. 337 BC) Shen Dao (or Shen Tzu), (c. 350-275 BC) Shvetashvatara, (c. 4th century BC) Socrates, (470 BC-399 BC) Solomon, (970-931 BC) Shukracharya (8th ...
The Parthenon, a temple dedicated to Athena, located on the Acropolis in Athens, is one of the most representative symbols of the culture and sophistication of the ancient Greeks. Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th ...
The 6th century is the period from 501 through 600 in line with the Julian calendar. In the West, the century marks the end of Classical Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages. The collapse of the Western Roman Empire late in the previous century left Europe fractured into many small Germanic kingdoms competing fiercely for land and wealth.
Early world maps. The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period. The developments of Greek geography during this time, notably by Eratosthenes and Posidonius ...