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| c. 500 |
| | | A phallic figure, the Cerne Giant, is cut on a Dorset hillside at Cerne Abbas | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | The temple city of Tikal is one of many Mayan city states of the Classic period | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | The scribes known as Masoretes safeguard the ancient Hebrew of the Torah by their careful copying of the text | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | The city of Tiwanaku develops to the south of Lake Titicaca, and soon dominates the surrounding region | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | Beans are gathered by the Maya from wild cocoa trees and are probably used in a chocolate drink | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | According to Bede, the first widely accepted Anglo-Saxon ruler in southern Britain is Aelli, founder of the West Sussex kingdom | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | Mayan priests feature in stone carvings smoking pipes and puffing the smoke towards the sacred sun | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | Clovis and some 3000 of his soldiers are baptized in a massive ceremony at Reims | |
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| 518 |
| | | The Slavs cross the Danube and press southwards into the Roman provinces of Moesia and Thracia | |
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| 525 |
| | | Dionysius Exiguus, commissioned by the pope to improve chronology, makes an error of at least four years in his selected event for AD 1 | |
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