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600 to 501 b.c.

In or close to this 6th century B.C. a number of religious geniuses appeared in the ancient world. Karl Jaspers has called this an "axial age"

As quoted in Reference 8 , page 72
. It was the period of Confucius and perhaps Lao-tz in China, of Gautama, the Buddha in India, of Zoraster in Iran, Pythagoras in Greece and of the greatest of the Hebrew prophets, Deutero-lsaiah (Isaiah 40 to 59). There was a movement towards a belief in a single spiritual reality, and the Greeks were searching for a single principle to explain the material world. One result of this was the development of monotheism.

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Source:  OpenStax, A comprehensive outline of world history. OpenStax CNX. Nov 30, 2009 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10595/1.3
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