Axial Age
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pivotal age characterizing history and philosophy from the 8th to 3rd centuries BCE
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- native label
- Achsenzeit
- discoverer or inventor
- Karl Jaspers
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Axial Age (also Axis Age, from the German Achsenzeit) is a term coined in 1949 by the German philosopher Karl Jaspers. It refers to broad changes in religious and philosophical thought that occurred in a variety of locations from about the 8th to the 3rd century BCE.
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