Axial+Age

=Axial Age =

Possibly each region faces similar need to overhaul elite intellectual foundations about 100 years after great social restructurings of 8th century BCE Related developments all across Eurasia after 600 BCE: Confucius and Mozi in China, Buddha in India, Zoroaster in Iran, Hebrew Bible in Israel Babylon, Ionian Enlightenment. In Greece, hundreds of city-states popped up. After 700 BC, the rich take over the land of Attica (land around Athens) and turn the populations there to serfdom. By 500 BCE, Greece is emerging as an economic core on edge of Persian Empire. __**Why**__ Gave rise to major religions and philosophies
 * What** Axial age- time period during which similar revolutions in thinking occurred all over the world, from China and India to the Mediterranean. Occurred even with different social contexts; no one really knows why this happened.
 * When** 800-200 BC