Life century

See also: List of the centuries, Roman numerals ---- The century begins on January 1st 501 and finishes the December 31st 600.

Events

February 18th 535, creation of the Strait of the Probe between the Islands of Java and Sumatra by the titanic explosion of the Krakatoa, heard to thousands of kilometers to the round. Its Tsunami striking quantity of coastal populations. This explosion is consigned in written documents, in particular Chinese and is transmitted in the majority of the " Myth s" oral Culture S like the durable obscuration of the sun (caused by the rejections of particles of the Volcano in question). It plunges the ground in a nuclear kind of Hiver during several Année S, involving Famine S, Pandémie S and the collapse of several Civilization S. Considérée the beginning of the dark ages.

Culture of old Thulé in Alaska (500-1100), with a well adapted economy in which fishing with the Baleine plays a leading role (harpoons, lances), with hunting for the Phoque, the Morse, the caribou and game birds. It uses sledges drawn by Chien S and Kayak S. ceramics, decorated, is of use and the permanent villages are made well isolated houses of winter. Tools on stone plates.
Third period of the basket makers (Basketmaker III, 500-700) in the south-west of the the United States. Villages cash to 50 half-sunken houses are installed on terraces, close to the plains of flood where push the Maïs, the Courge S and the Haricot S.
the houses of Basketmaker III are surmounted by attics of storage. Arcs and arrows are introduced to replace the javelin and the engines.
ceramics is introduced into the villages of Basketmaker III by the culture close to Mogollon (ceramic gray, sometimes decorated with black reasons, gone up to the wad and finished by smoothing).
Apogee of Teotihuacán. With the Mexico, Teotihuacán is the sixth city of the world with approximately 200.000 inhabitants.

the Bantou arrive in South Africa with their iron and their domesticated cattle.
First town of Zimbabwe, undoubtedly Bantou, going back to the 8th century.
Cultures advanced in the valley of the Senegal.
the kingdom of Aksoum weakens (- {{mini VIIe}}). It loses its possessions in Arabia and the expansion of Islam will oblige it to turn to the south.
After the decline of Méroé, three Christian kingdoms are constituted in Nubie and in nilotic Sudan, supported by the Byzantines: The kingdom of Nobatia in north (Ballana capital), of Makourra in Nubie (capital Dongola) and of Alodia (Aloa, capital Soba, in the south of the Life cataract) in Sudan. They will remain until the {{mini XIVe}} - {{mini XVe}}.
Dongola, capital of Makourra, is the starting point of the track of Chad via Darfur.

the principalities Tibetans are joined together under the authority of the king Namri Songtsen (601 - 629, a chief of the fertile valley of the Yarlung, course higher of the Brahmapoutra. His/her son, Songtsen Gampo, will establish relations with the Indian world and the Chinese world; it is at that time that Lhassa is founded. At the end of the century, the Tibet of the king Namri Songtsen follows an aggressive expansion policy. The Tibetans attack the people in border regions of India and China, and the caravans which take the silk route.
Buddha S gigantic of the rupestral monastery of Bâmiyân in Afghanistan, 35 and 53 meters in height (- {{mini VIIe}}). The statues was covered with gold and was decorated with invaluable clothing.

the dynasties Châlukya reign on the Western part of India and Dekkan until in 1297. Their founder Pulakeshim Ier moves the capital of Aiholi with Bâdâmi (550 - 760). Its successors will get a foothold in Gujerat and in Andhra country then will impose their supremacy.
Pushyabhuti founds the dynasty of the Vardhamana which reigns with Thaneshwar, meadows of Lahore (Pendjab). Prabhakara-Vardhana, one of its successors, wire of a Gupta princess, will succeed in extending its influence after having launched victorious raids against Huns.

In Korea, Buddhism becomes a powerful force at the century and strongly inspires the intellectual and artistic life Silla.

In the current Spain

Of the union between the indigenous population and the Visigoths, is born a strong and homogeneous kingdom, during one boom.

In current France

Synagogs in Paris and Orleans at the century. Presence of Jewish S in Marseilles.

In current Italy

In current Northern Europe

Abandon of villages because of the Inondation S. the private Germanic ground people emigrates towards the west and settles in Eastern England and partially as a Gaulle.
Activity of the port of Helgö in Sweden for the period of Vendel.
Discovered in Helgö (island of the lake Mälar, in Sweden), of objects coming from the Indian Ocean, the century (small bronze Buddha, shells).

In British Isles

Resistance against the Angles (- {{mini VIIe}}) of the Breton kingdom of the Strathclyde (southern of the Scotland, north of the England), at the origin of the legendary cycle of king Arthur.
Poetry in Ireland transcribing the Celtic traditional epopees.
In the Breton kingdoms, of the north of the island like Wales and of Cornwall, the legend of Arthur takes form, nourished by the ceaseless narration of the engagements against the Angles. The legend is also established in Armorique, ground of immigration for the Bretons. The cauldron of abundance, the marvellous objects, the heroes and their adventures are Celtic topics.

Into Germanic

Translation of the Bible of Wulfila to the use of the Goths. It would be the oldest literary document of the Germanic world.
First Danish dynasty in the island of Sjaelland. Skjördr, first king of the dynasty of Skjöldungar to the Denmark.
Man of Grauballe, sacrificed towards 500, found in a state of perfect conservation in a peat bog of Denmark.

Rarefaction of labor in the campaigns of the Byzantine Empire (v. 500) then stagnation. The contribution of new slaves is less and less important. The great fields, in particular those of the Church, are in difficulty. The small farmer is in a relatively favorable situation, helped by the State which makes less rigorous the fastener to the ground of the colonists, and starting from the middle of the century starts to reduce the taxes. The category of the “hereditary lessees”, dealers of a ground for several generations or to perpetuity with the help of a weak rent develops, with the detriment of the Church.
Appearance of fortified towns to the mud and wood ramparts as from the century in Poland (castrated).

Benoit de Nursie (Ca 480 - Ca 547), founder about the Benedictines, owner of the Europe,
holy Gregoire de Tours,
holy Colomban.
Denys Small the, determined the date of birth of Jesus-Christ (with an error from 4 to 6 years).

Isidore of Seville, bishop of the kingdom of the Visigoths (Spain), the most erudite man of this time, whose work will be read and studied during all the Moyen-âge.
Boèce,
Cassiodore.

See: Philosophical and theologists of the Life century

Religion: end of the drafting of the version of the Gémara written in Mésopotamie, forming with the Mishna the Talmud of Babylon.

Beats-smg: VI omžios Be-X-old: 6 стагодзьдзе Nds-nl: 6th eeuw Simple: 6th century

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