Tales of Invasions and Empires: Our Place in Time (c. 1100 to 1300)

The renowned German philosopher and historian Karl Jaspers famously defined an Axial Age as the centuries surrounding 500 BC that uplifted humanity with teachings on morality and love characterized by the Golden Rule. The four major civilizations generated by that Age--Confucian China, Hindu India, the Muslim Middle East, and the Christian West--are currently in a new Axial Age that speaks to power and will.

These four civilizations began to significantly interact and proceed toward today in...