“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

Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Nine, "The Axial Age", p. 224

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