Also: Just because we don’t know any religions or famous people from before that time, doesn’t mean that they didn’t exist, just that we don’t know about them. The further away you are from a point, the less details you can make out. This is completely normal.
Blaming this on population density and urbanization might not be wrong, but it can’t be all there is to it. I think.
David Graeber’s “Debt” goes to some extent about this,
He traces philosophy back to a few factors such as urbanization, imperialism (i.e. Greece, India and China were great empires at that time) and the advent of coinage at the time (which allegedly was a way ro finance armies and finance more imperialism)
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Agree with the bonus panel.
Also: Just because we don’t know any religions or famous people from before that time, doesn’t mean that they didn’t exist, just that we don’t know about them. The further away you are from a point, the less details you can make out. This is completely normal.
Blaming this on population density and urbanization might not be wrong, but it can’t be all there is to it. I think.
David Graeber’s “Debt” goes to some extent about this,
He traces philosophy back to a few factors such as urbanization, imperialism (i.e. Greece, India and China were great empires at that time) and the advent of coinage at the time (which allegedly was a way ro finance armies and finance more imperialism)