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1 Events

2 Significant persons

3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions

4 Decades and years

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1 Events

The first academy of the east the Academy of Gundeshapur founded in Persia by the Persian Shah Khosrau I.
Irish colonists and invaders, the Scots, began migrating to Caledonia (later known as Scotland)
Glendalough monastery, Wicklow Ireland founded by St. Kevin
Zen Buddhists enter Vietnam from China.
Buddhist JatakaThe Jataka stories are a significant body of works about the previous lives of Gautama Buddha. Many of these have been preserved in Sri Lanka in the Pali language. Others have been preserved in Tibet through Tibetan. In the 6th century, some of the storie stories are translated into PersianPersian , also known as Farsi (local name), Parsi Tajiki or Dari is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. It has official-language status in the first three countries. There are over 75 million native speakers. It belongs to t by order of the Zoroastrian king KhosrauKhosrau I "the Blessed" Anushirvan , ( 531 579) was the favourite son and successor of Kavadh I, and the most famous of the Sassanid kings. According to one account, Khosrau was the Kavadh's son through a peasant girl, and was originally considered unwort.
Buddhism introduced to JapanJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honsh from BaekjeBaekje was a kingdom in southwestern Korea. In Korea, it is known as one of the Three Kingdoms, along with Goguryeo and Silla. It was destroyed by an alliance of Silla and the Tang Empire in 660 AD. History Hanseong period (BC 18 ~ AD 475) There are two d ( KoreaKorea is a formerly unified country, situated on the Korean Peninsula in north East Asia adjacent to China in the west and Russia in the north. When World War II ended in 1945, the country was divided into two: the Republic of Korea ( South Korea) and the) in 552, thus contributing to the changes that occurred in the Asuka period.
Outbreak of bubonic plague in Constantinople and the rest of the Roman Empire.
Establishment of Karantania, first stable and independent state of Slovenians and of Slavs.

2 Significant persons

Pope Gregory the Great (590-604)
Arthur, defeated the Anglo-Saxons
Justinian, Byzantine Emperor (527-565)
Belisarius, last great Roman general
Beowulf, (fictional?) king of the Geats
Jordanes, author of the Getica.
Procopius, a historian.

Backgammon (nard) invented in Persia by Buzurgmihr
Chess entered Persia from India and was modified
heavy plough in use in Po Valley, Italy
breast-strap horse harness in use in Frankish kingdom
Byzantine Empire acquires silk technology from China

4 Decades and years

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