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What Was the Bronze Age Like?
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The Bronze Age was a period of extraordinary transformation that unfolded across many parts of the world between roughly 3300 and 1200 BCE. During this time, people mastered the process of smelting copper and tin into bronze, a durable metal that reshaped how humans farmed, fought, and built. Like the Stone Age that came before it and the Iron Age that followed, the Bronze Age marked a major stage in the evolution of civilization. But it wasn’t defined by metallurgy alone: It was also a time of urbanization and cultural advancements. Civilizations in Mesopotamia, the ...Read More
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