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Alternate uses, see Number 600.

Years: 596 597 598 599 - 600 - 601 602 603 604
Decades: 570s 580s 590s - 600s - 610s 620s 630s
Centuries: 5th century - 6th century - 7th century

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The moldboard plow is invented in eastern Europe
Possibly the first reference to chess, in the Persian work Karnamak-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan.
The Persians begin to use windmills for irrigation.
Pope Gregory I codifies what comes to be known as Gregorian chant.
Construction on the monastery of St. Catherine is begun on Mount Sinai.
The population of the Earth rises to about 208 million people.
Smallpox arrives in Europe for the first time.
Irish missionaries preach in Scotland and Germany.
Chinese-influenced sculptures of Buddha begin to be created in Japan.
Sumatra, Java, and the surrounding islands are converted to Buddhism.
Augustine of Canterbury converts Ethelbert of Kent to Christianity (approximate date).
The Hopewell culture of North America ceases to be the dominant culture.

Venance Fortunat, bishop of Poitiers, one of the last representatives of Classical Latin poetry.
John Climax, ascetic and mystic.

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