In the first millennium BCE across Afro-Eurasia, Axial Age thinkers developed radical new ideas in response to their respective political and cultural situations. In what ways did Axial Age thinkers in East Asia and the Mediterranean address the unique transformations and conflicts that were taking place where they lived? How do Zoroaster of Persia and the Jewish prophets of Israel fit this model?

In the first millennium BCE across Afro-Eurasia, Axial Age thinkers developed radical new ideas in response to their respective political and cultural situations. In what ways did Axial Age thinkers in East Asia and the Mediterranean address the unique transformations and conflicts that were taking place where they lived? How do Zoroaster of Persia and the Jewish prophets of Israel fit this model?