Definition of bronze age Bronze age
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What does bronze age mean?
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| bronze age - (archeology) a period between the Stone and Iron Ages, characterized by the manufacture and use of bronze tools and weapons | ||
| prehistoric culture, prehistory the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word | ||
| bronze age - (classical mythology) the third age of the world, marked by war and violence | ||
| period of time, time period, period an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" | ||
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bronze age
A period in human cultural development when the most advanced metalworking (at least in systematic and widespread use) consists of techniques for smelting copper and tin from naturally occurring outcroppings of ore, and then alloying those metals in order to cast bronze.
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The Bronze Age is the prehistoric time period when people made tools from a metal called bronze. Bronze is a mixture of two other metals: (90 % copper and 10 % tin). Wood, stone and other materials were also used for tools, but bronze was better for cutting and chopping, and was easy to shape. The Bronze Age was not at the same time everywhere, because different groups of people began to use bronze at different times. In Western Europe, the Bronze Age lasted from about 2000 BC until 800 BC. In the Middle East, it started about a thousand years earlier.
Reasons for the Bronze Age.
Archaeologists think that people became more organised in the Bronze Age. This is because making metal tools was difficult and needed special skills. The people who had these new skills would have been important. Before the Bronze Age, in the Stone Age, people might have been more equal. The new metal tools were bought, sold, or traded across larger distances.
Later, when iron tools spread, the Bronze Age ended and the Iron Age started.
The name.
The term Bronze Age refers to a period in human cultural development when the most advanced metalworking included techniques for belting copper and tin from naturally-occurring outcroppings of copper ores, and then smelting those ores to cast bronze. These naturally-occurring ores typically included arson as a common impurity. Copper/tin ores are rare, as reflected in the fact that there were no tin bronzes in western Asia before 3,000 B.C. The Bronze Age fo
