As early as the 6th century B.C. the earth was seen to be spherical.

Later during the 6th century BC, most of Anatolia was conquered by the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the Persians having usurped the Medes as the dominant dynasty in Iran.

By the 6th century BC, the Celtic La Tène culture was well established.

In the west, organized Arianism survived in North Africa, in Hispania, and parts of Italy until it was finally suppressed in the 6th and 7th centuries.

He obtained funding from the Rockefeller Foundation in New York and founded the 6th Section of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, which was devoted to the study of history and the social sciences.

Rebuilt by the emperor Justin I after an earthquake in the 6th century, it became Justinopolis ( 525 ); but the old native name persisted, and when Thoros I, king of Lesser Armenia, made it his capital early in the 12th century, it was known as Anazarva.

By the 6th century Alexander's commentaries on Aristotle were considered so useful that he was referred to as " the commentator " ().

Anacharsis (; ) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken " barbarian ", apparently a forerunner of the Cynics, though none of his works have survived.

Anaximenes () of Miletus ( b. 585 BCE, d. 528 BCE ) was an Archaic Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher active in the latter half of the 6th century BC .< ref name =" lindberg28 "> Lindberg, David C. “ The Greeks and the Cosmos .” < u > The Beginnings of Western Science </ u >.

Working for wages was clearly regarded as subjection to the will of another, but at least debt servitude had been abolished at Athens ( under the reforms of Solon at the start of the 6th century BC ).

In the 7th and the 6th centuries BC, the site was taken over by Kylon during the failed Kylonian revolt, and twice by Pisistratus: all attempts directed at seizing political power by coups d ' etat.

Cosmas Indicopleustes in the 6th century AD wrote of Atlantis in his Christian Topography in an attempt to prove his theory that the world was flat and surrounded by water:

Shortly after Gildas's time the Anglo-Saxon advance was resumed, and by the late 6th century nearly all of southern England was under the control of the continental invaders.

His direct male descendants ended in 1387 in Henry Nevill, 6th Baron Bergavenny, but a cousin, Edward Nevill, 8th Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1622 ), was confirmed in the Barony in 1604.

When Mahavira revived and reorganized the Jain movement in the 6th or 5th century BCE, ahimsa was already an established, strictly observed rule.

In the late 6th century, the city re-emerged as the seat of a county and an archdiocese within the Merovingian kingdom of the Franks, but royal Frankish power was never strong.

By the 6th century AD there is evidence of the foundation of a Bavarian stem duchy whose leadership was related to the ruling Frankish ( and possibly Alemannic / Swabian ) houses.

The earliest parts of the book are possibly chapters 2 – 11, the story of the conquest ; more certain is that this section was then incorporated into an early form of Joshua that was part of then original Deuteronomistic history, written late in the reign of king Josiah ( reigned 640 – 609 BCE ); it seems clear that the book was not completed until after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586, and possibly not until after the return from the Babylonian exile late in the 6th century.

In 1943 the German biblical scholar Martin Noth suggested that this history was composed by a single author / editor, living in the time of the Exile ( 6th century BCE ).

A major modification to Noth's theory was made in 1973 by the American scholar Frank M. Cross, to the effect that two editions of the history could be distinguished, the first and more important from the court of king Josiah in the late 7th century, and the second Noth's 6th century Exilic history, and other scholars have detected many more authors / editors than either Noth or Cross allowed for.

In the early 6th century Judah rebelled against Babylon and was destroyed.

3: 3, proves ignorance of words of the old past, already forgotten in the Hellenistic period, indicating that the Book of Daniel was written in the late 6th century BC.

The Division had been dissolved and many of its former units were to be absorbed into the 6th South African Armoured Division.

After the peace of 1814 the corps was dissolved, the infantry becoming the 25th Regiment, the cavalry the 6th Ulans.

* 1876 – Kim Gu, Korean politician, 6th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea ( d. 1949 )

* 6th National Congress ( 1st Congress, New Democratic Youth League ): 11 – 18 April 1949

In spite of reaching a more respectable 6th place under his successor Billy Wooton in 1949, it wasn't until the appointment of George Hardwick as player-manager in November 1950 that the club found any real form.

* Cecil Lowry-Corry, 6th Earl Belmore ( 1873 – 1949 )

* Stephen Powys, 6th Baron Lilford ( 1869 – 1949 )

* Charles Edward Piers Crofton, 6th Baron Crofton ( 1949 – 1989 )

* Guy Rhys John Mansfield, 6th Baron Sandhurst ( b. 1949 )

He won the 14th LTU-ch in 1947, won in 1948, took 3rd in 1949, took 6th in 1951, tied for 2nd-4th in 1952, took 6th in 1953, took 2nd in 1954, took 3rd in 1955, took 2nd in 1957, tied for 2nd-4thin 1958, took 3rd in 1959, tied for 3rd-4th in 1960, won in 1961, took 2nd in 1963, won in 1964, shared 1st in 1965, tied for 2nd-3rd in 1967, and tied for 1st-2nd in 1968.

He was appointed the first Officer Commanding of No. 3 Squadron In a letter to the Editor of ' Flight ' magazine, dated 23rd January 1949, he wrote, " I see from an old log book that though I was seconded to the Air Battalion at the end of March 1912, it was not till the 6th May that I flew to Larkhill to take over command of No. 2 ( Aeroplane ) Co ." No. 3 Squadron was the successor unit to the Air Battalion's No. 2 ( Aeroplane ) Company which had been stationed at Larkhill, on Salisbury Plain, since it's creation in April 1911 and thus became the oldest British, Empire or Commonwealth independent Military unit to operate heavier-than-air machines.

* College Yiddish: An Introduction to the Yiddish Language and to Jewish Life and Culture ( YIVO, New York, 1st edition 1949, 6th edition 1999 ), ISBN 0-914512-26-9.

He returned to Washington in August 1948 to attend the National War College, and in May 1949 was named Commanding Officer of the 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Wertz finished in the Top 15 in MVP voting five times: 1949 ( 10th ), 1950 ( 10th ), 1956 ( 9th ), 1957 ( 6th ), and 1960 ( 14th ).

The 6th Riverine District has its headquarters in Ladário, near Corumbá on the Paraguay River.

Carolyn Pressler, in a recent commentary for the Westminster Bible Companion series, suggests that readers of Joshua should give priority to its theological message (" what passages teach about God ") and be aware of what these would have meant to audiences in the 7th and 6th centuries BCE.

It derives its name from, and records the visions of, Jeremiah, who lived in Jerusalem in the late 7th and early 6th centuries BC during the time of king Josiah and the fall of the Kingdom of Judah to the Babylonians, and who subsequently went into exile in Egypt.

The details of this history's composition are still widely debated, but most scholars place its origins, or at least its final form, in the 6th century BCE and the community of the Babylonian exile.

The theological views that led to its author ( s ) writing the Book of Lamentations emanated from the cultural and religious attitudes of the people of Judah in the 6th and 7th centuries BC and was probably also influenced by non-biblical sources which originated from the cultural and religious attitudes of Judah's neighbors of differing religions.

It derives its name from, and records the visions of, the 6th century BC priest and prophet Ezekiel.

First described by the 1st-century AD Roman poet Martial, who praised its convenient use, the codex achieved numerical parity with the scroll around AD 300, and had completely replaced it throughout the now Christianised Greco-Roman world by the 6th century.

" Earnhardt led most of the race and looked to have victory in hand, but fatigue finally took its toll and Earnhardt ended up 6th, behind race winner Geoff Bodine.

The 6th century BC temple was named the " Temple of Alcmeonidae " in tribute to the Athenian family who funded its reconstruction following a fire, which had destroyed the original structure.

Like its model, Phoenician waw, it represented the voiced labial-velar approximant and stood in the 6th position in the alphabet, between epsilon and zeta.

In a 6 optional meet, the divers will yet again perform one dive from each category, but this time they will perform a 6th optional from the category of their choosing, which is worth its actual DD from the DD sheet.

While traditionally accepted as the genuine words of Moses delivered on the eve of the occupation of Canaan, a broad consensus of modern scholars now see its origins in traditions from Israel ( the northern kingdom ) brought south to the Kingdom of Judah in the wake of the Assyrian destruction of Samaria ( 8th century BCE ) and then adapted to a program of nationalist reform in the time of King Josiah ( late 7th century ), with the final form of the modern book emerging in the milieu of the return from the Babylonian exile during the late 6th century.

In the first era ( 1st – 6th editions, 1768 – 1826 ), the Britannica was managed and published by its founders, Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell, by Archibald Constable, and by others.

Its economy size is slightly bigger than Israel and Ireland and its GDP per capita at purchasing power parity is the 6th highest globally in 2011, more than United States and Netherlands and slightly lower than the Brunei.

From the 6th century AD until 771, the area around modern-day Hastings, as the territory of the Haestingas tribe, considered itself to be a separate Kingdom from the surrounding Kingdoms of Suth Saxe (" South Saxons ", i. e. Sussex ) and Kent, and attempted to retain its separate cultural identity until the 11th century.

The study of mathematics as a subject in its own right begins in the 6th century BC with the Pythagoreans, who coined the term " mathematics " from the ancient Greek μάθημα ( mathema ), meaning " subject of instruction ".

The Phocaeans of Massalia founded the colony of Monoikos, named for its Ligurian inhabitants, in the 6th century B. C.

Monaco was recaptured by the Romans during the reign of Justinian in the mid 6th century and was held until its capture by the Lombards in the 7th century.

It is not clear when and where olive trees were first domesticated: in Asia Minor in the 6th millennium ; Greece has by far the largest per capita consumption of olive oil worldwide, over 26 liters per person per year ; Spain and Italy, around 14 l ; Tunisia, Portugal, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, around 8 l. Northern Europe and North America consume far less, around 0. 7 l, but the consumption of olive oil outside its home territory has been rising steadily.

The " old style " verse ( gushi ) is less formally strict than the jintishi, or regulated verse, which, despite the name " new style " verse actually had its theoretical basis laid as far back to Shen Yue, in the 5th or 6th century, although not considered to have reached its full development until the time of Chen Zi ' ang ( 661-702 ) A good example of a poet known for his gushi poems is Li Bai.

* A double palimpsest, in which a text of St John Chrysostom, in Syriac, of the ninth or 10th century, covers a Latin grammatical treatise in a cursive hand of the 6th century, which in its turn covers the Latin annals of the historian Granius Licinianus, of the 5th century, British Museum.

During the airborne phase of the Normandy invasion on the night of 5 – 6 June 1944, British 6th Airborne Division captured all its key objectives in advance of the seaborne assault, including the capture and holding at all costs of a vital bridge over the Caen Canal, near Ouistreham.

However, the domestication of oxen in Mesopotamia and by its contemporary Indus valley civilization, perhaps as early as the 6th millennium .., provided mankind with the draft power necessary to develop the larger, animal-drawn true ard ( or scratch plough ).