The attentive reader may have noticed that the core period of Jasper's Axial age-the lifetimes of Pythagoras, Confucius, and the Buddha-corresponds almost exactly to the period in which coinage was invented. (David Graeber)

The attentive reader may have noticed that the core period of Jasper's Axial age-the lifetimes of Pythagoras, Confucius, and the Buddha-corresponds almost exactly to the period in which coinage was invented.

David Graeber

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