Editing Civilization (section)

=== Axial Age ===
{{Main|Axial Age}}
{{further|Iron Age|Stoicism|Judaism|Zoroastrianism|Hinduism|Spread of Buddhism|Confucianism|Taoism}}

The [[Bronze Age collapse]] was followed by the Iron Age around 1200 BCE, during which a number of new civilizations emerged, culminating in a period from the 8th to the 3rd century BCE which [[Karl Jaspers]] termed the [[Axial Age]], presented as a critical transitional phase leading to [[classical civilization]].<ref>Tarnas, Richard (1993). ''The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View'' (Ballantine Books)</ref>