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1. Bronze Age
(2300BC-700BC)
By: Ashley Dayan

2. ABOUT THE BRONZE AGE
 The bronze age is a time period characterized by the use of bronze, photowriting
and early features of urban civilization.
 Bronze age is the second part of the three-age system (stone age, bronze age, iron
age)
 Bronze was used widely to make tools, weapons, and other implements.
 The bronze age lasted roughly three thousand years , saw major advances in
social, economic, technological.
 War time

3. About the making of bronze
 Bronze is a combination of tin/cooper
 Bronze is a harder material then the previously used stone.
 You could manipulate the melted metal into sharper points/edges for swords
and axes.

4. How the bronze age was effected
politically
 Ancient kings sent servants on journeys to find copper. Kings had more
confidence with better weapons.

5. How the bronze age was effected
socially
 The need for bronze tools and weapons made stone workers obsolete.
 New professions being create in the field of metallurgy, bronze working.

6. How the bronze age was effected
economically
 Cities that didn’t have the natural resources needed to obtain bronze were
forced to trade with societies that did bring goods to societies.

7. How the bronze age was effected
cultually
 Bronze tools allowed for cities to achieve more successful warfare and
defenses.

8. About the chariot
 Chariot was a light vehicle, usually on two wheels drawn by one or more
horse, often carrying two standing persons, a driver and a fighter using bow-
arrows or javelins.
 Used in battle.
 One of the most useful weapons in the bronze age.
 Invention
 Moving platform which solders could shoot enemies.
 No explanation why humans invented it.
 Supreme military weapon

9. How the chariot was effected by the
economy
 The chariot was effected by the economy. Chariot got money flowing as they
traded to more primitive civilizations in exchange for natural recourses.

10. How the chariot was effected culturally
 Enable empires to conquer other cities and expand there boundaries.
 Allowed them to grow culturally by adapting to the culture of the conquered
city

11. How the chariot was effected socially
 The chariot was used for hunting purposes and in sporting events such as the
Olympic games and in the roman cirrus maximus.

12. Chariot effected politically
 Military advantage, cities without them feared the cities that did have them.
 Kings of stronger city leverage and an opportunity to create a treaty with the
nation.

13. About bronze weapons
 Weapons made out of bronze.
 Bronze is made when cooper is heated and mixed with tin, creating a strong
metal, then cooper.
 The bronze weapons were far superior to those of the Neolithic age that came
before.
 Weapons more harder/durable
 Innovation

14. How Bronze weapons/tools effected
cultural
 Tools allowed for cities to achieve more successful warfare and defense.
 Weapons durable/harder.
 Less time repairing like Neolithic age.

15. How bronze weapons effected socially
 There were new professions being created in the field of metallurgy/bronze
working.

16. How bronze weapons were effected
politically
 Ancient kings sent servants on journeys to find copper.
 Kings given more confidence during the time of war knowing that they had
advanced weapons.

17. How bronze weapons are effected
economically
 Cities that didn’t have the natural resources needed to obtain bronze were
forced to trade with societies that did. This brought goods to societies or the
bronze.

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