Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation
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https://www.worldcat.org/title/great-transformation-the-beginning-of-our-religious-traditions/oclc/61362216Karen Armstrong's history of the Axial Age, the period around 500 BCE when Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, the Hebrew prophets and the authors of the Upanishads all emerged at the same time on three continents with no contact between them. The book asks why so many of the world's great ethical traditions appeared simultaneously and what they all had in common.
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