Historians of religions sometimes speak of an axial age

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Historians of religions sometimes speak of an “Axial Age” in the first millennium BCE when many new religions and ways of thinking were introduced in various parts of the world. What were these, and how did they differ from the religions and speculative thought of the Bronze Age Near East and Egypt?

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