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Their ideas are derived from the insights of Karl Jaspers and were developed most famously by S. M. Eisenstadt, Benjamin Schwartz and Robert Bellah. The Axial Age refers to the sixth century BCE when revolutionary developments in society, philosophy and religion occurred across the Eurasian axis of China, India, the Middle East and Greece. Philosop

studying the motivations of individuals in isolation: the patterns we see are a fundamentally social affair. More, as Anderson

These data make a strong case that, as human social networks grow, they necessarily lead to systems that require fewer resources per person, and produce more per person. In other words, the benefits of scale for human groups have always been there.

Joseph Tainter has pointed out in his valuable book, The Collapse of Complex Societies,

However, as we have seen, soon after 1200 BC, the Bronze Age civilizations did collapse in the Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean, and Near East, and they exhibit all of the classic features outlined by Renfrew, from disappearance of the traditional elite class and a collapse of central administrations and centralized economies to settlement shifts, pop

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Malgré ces avantages, la transformation des tribus et des clans en une seule nation n’a jamais été facile, pas plus dans l’Antiquité que de nos jours.