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Why can Aegean chronology still swing by a century depending on which dating method you trust? Selection rules: how do you decide which cases are comparable before you compare them? Why comparative historians have to argue for comparability before they compare Jaspers's Axial Age claims a simultaneous breakthrough in four regions — does the chronology hold? The units problem: are you comparing nations or regions or systems? Most-similar design in comparative history: picking two cases that differ in one thing When comparison flattens both cases into a single category What changes when civilizations are compared synchronically rather than across centuries? Why comparing two countries is easier to write than to justify Megalithic tombs across Atlantic Europe share a style without sharing a language Toynbee's rise and fall of civilizations treated as philosophy rather than finding Comparing two censuses from different regimes when the categories themselves differ Egyptology and Assyriology barely talk to each other even about the same century Collapse is the most comparative thing about early civilizations Can you compare Axial Age China and Greece without flattening both?

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