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1st millennium BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (469 words) |
 | The 1st millennium BC encompasses the Iron Age and sees the rise of successive empires. |
 | Towards the close of the millennium, the Han Dynasty extends Chinese power towards Central Asia, where it borders on Indo-Greek and Iranian states. |
 | World population triples in the course of the millennium, reaching some 170 million people at its close. |
| Axial Age - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (890 words) |
 | According to the Axial Age theory, the philosophy behind the world's major religions sprang from a six-hundred year span of time in the first millennium BCE. |
 | German philosopher Karl Jaspers coined the term the Axial Age (Achsenzeit in the German language original) to describe the period from 800 BCE to 200 BCE, during which, according to Jaspers, similarly revolutionary thinking appeared in China, India and the Occident. |
 | Jaspers' approach to the culture of the middle of the first millennium BCE has been adopted by other scholars and academics, and has become a point of discussion in the history of religion. |