Axial Age
c. 800–c. 200 BCE
A period when major new ways of thinking arose separately in Greece, Persia, India and China.
- Type
- Era
- Date
- c. 800–c. 200 BCE
- Place
- Eurasia
Who was alive during Axial Age
- Hesiod c. 750–c. 650 BCE, poet
- Jeremiah c. 650–c. 570 BCE, prophet
- Nebuchadnezzar II c. 642–562 BCE, king
- Zoroaster (By Zoroastrian tradition) c. 628–c. 551 BCE, prophet
- Thales of Miletus c. 624–c. 546 BCE, philosopher
- Mahavira 599–527 BCE, spiritual leader
- Laozi c. 571–c. 471 BCE, philosopher
- Pythagoras c. 570–c. 495 BCE, philosopher
- Gautama Buddha c. 563–c. 483 BCE, spiritual leader
- Confucius 551–479 BCE, philosopher
- Sophocles c. 497–c. 406 BCE, playwright
- Euripides c. 480–c. 406 BCE, playwright
- Democritus c. 460–c. 370 BCE, philosopher
- Hippocrates c. 460–c. 370 BCE, physician
- Plato c. 428–c. 348 BCE, philosopher
- Diogenes c. 412–323 BCE, philosopher
- Chanakya c. 375–c. 283 BCE, political thinker
- Mencius c. 372–c. 289 BCE, philosopher
- Zhuang Zhou c. 369–c. 286 BCE, philosopher
- Epicurus 341–270 BCE, philosopher
- Zeno of Citium c. 334–c. 262 BCE, philosopher
- Ashoka c. 304–232 BCE, emperor
- Archimedes c. 287–212 BCE, mathematician
- Eratosthenes c. 276–c. 194 BCE, mathematician