When did societies become modern? ‘Big history’ dashes popular idea of Axial Age

Laura Spinney

Nature, 2019, vol. 576, issue 7786, 189-190

Abstract: Humanity’s supposed singular transition to modernity in the first millennium bc was much messier than previously thought, finds sweeping study of historical data.

Date: 2019
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