Category:6th century BCE

The chronology of this century is less uncertain than in earlier times because the transition from prehistory to history was gathering pace in the more developed regions such as the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. Even so, the majority of known or assumed events are still dated approximately and there is bound to be some crossover from the 6th century into the 7th and 5th centuries, and so this category is loosely defined as the century between 600 BCE and 501 BCE.