The Bronze Age is a period in a civilization's development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. The Bronze Age is part of the three-age system for prehistoric societies and follows the Neolithic in some areas of the World. In most parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Neolithic is directly fol ...

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• Bronze Age - Asian Bronze Age
• Bronze Age - Aegean Bronze Age
• Bronze Age - British Bronze Age
• Bronze Age - Central European Bronze Age
• Bronze Age - Nordic Bronze Age 1500-500 BC
• Bronze Age - External link

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Bronze Age, Bronze Age - Asian Bronze Age, Bronze Age - Aegean Bronze Age, Bronze Age - British Bronze Age, Bronze Age - Central European Bronze Age, Bronze Age - Nordic Bronze Age 1500-500 BC, Bronze Age - External link

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The Bronze Age first began with Sumer in what is now Iraq, in 3500 BC. This was shortly followed by the Indus Valley Civilization in what is now Pakistan and North India, in 3300 BC. China's bronze age began from around 2100 BC with the Xia dynasty. In Ban Chiang, Thailand, (Southeast Asia) bronze artifacts have been discovered dating to 2100 BC [1]. The Erlitou culture, Shang Dynasty and Sanxingdui culture of early China used bronze vessels for rituals ...

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Bronze Age, Bronze Age - Asian Bronze Age, Bronze Age - Aegean Bronze Age, Bronze Age - British Bronze Age, Bronze Age - Central European Bronze Age, Bronze Age - Nordic Bronze Age 1500-500 BC, Bronze Age - External link

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Age of Bronze is a comics series by writer/artist Eric Shanower retelling the legend of the Trojan War. It began in 1998 and is published by Image Comics. The series aims to be true to all literary traditions, from Homer's Iliad to Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, as well as to the archaeology of the Bronze Age Aegean. When complete it is projected to comprise seven volumes. 21 issues, two graphic novel collections and two specials have been published to date. Volume 1: A Thousand Ships

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Prehistory of Cyprus - Early Bronze Age. The new era was introduced by people from Anatolia who came to Cyprus because of disturbances in Asia Minor. It is only natural that we observe the first vivid vestiges of this civilisation around 2300 BC in the northern part of the island, from where it spread south and west. As the newcomers knew how to work with copper they soon moved to the so-called copperbelt of the island, that is the foothills of the Troodos mountains. This movement reflects the increased interest in the raw material that was going to be so closely conn ...

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Prehistory of Cyprus, Prehistory of Cyprus - Epipalaeolithic, Prehistory of Cyprus - Neolithic, Prehistory of Cyprus - Aceramic Neolithic, Prehistory of Cyprus - Ceramic Neolithic, Prehistory of Cyprus - Chalcolithic, Prehistory of Cyprus - Bronze Age, Prehistory of Cyprus - Early Bronze Age, Prehistory of Cyprus - Middle Bronze Age, Prehistory of Cyprus - Late Bronze Age, Prehistory of Cyprus - Iron Age, Prehistory of Cyprus - Literature, Prehistory of Cyprus - Reference

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Some time later a Bronze age rituals added a small stone and clay cairn just off centre inside the monument, with a 7 ft (2 m) high standing stone to the east and a setting of smaller stones. Also aligned to this cairn were sockets for three upright stones at the centre of an arc of seven small pits, six of which contained cremated bones and two contained remains of bone skewer pins. Under the cairn traces were found of at least one burial, with wooden objects (perhaps a mask and club) and beaker people style ...

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Cairnpapple Hill, Cairnpapple Hill - Neolithic, Cairnpapple Hill - Bronze Age, Cairnpapple Hill - Present day, Cairnpapple Hill - Derivation of the name

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Though the use of bronze started much earlier in the Aegean area, it is not before 1800 BCE that it reaches southern Spain, while Central Europe will wait another century (c. 1700 BCE) and the Atlantic region will remain Chalcolithic until 1300 BCE (noticeably Egypt remained in the same backward technological state until much later). In any case, the date of 1800/1700 BCE can be considered typical for the start of this stage in Europe in general, although some scholars claim earlier dates for the introduction of bronze (this may be caused by the slim barrier be ...

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Prehistoric Europe, Prehistoric Europe - Paleolithic, Prehistoric Europe - Neolithic, Prehistoric Europe - Chalcolithic, Prehistoric Europe - Bronze Age, Prehistoric Europe - Iron Age

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Bronze Age swords appear from around the 17th century BC, evolving out of the dagger. The 3rd millennium Sumerian "sickle-sword" is an early predecessor of the backsword. Early examples with typical leaf-shaped blades are found in Mesopotamia, around the Mediterranean, particularly in Crete, and around the Black Sea. Sword production in China is attested from the Bronze Age Shang Dynasty, with steel swords making their appearance from the 3rd century BC Qin Dynasty. The Chinese Dao (刀 pinyin dāo) is single-edged, sometimes translated as sabre or br ...

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The anthropomorphic stone stelae found in the Ukrainian steppe, with some finds extending the area to Moldavia, the northern Caucasus (Southern Federal District) and the area north of the Caspian Sea (western Kazakhstan), date from the Copper Age (ca. 4000 BC–2000 BC), through the Cimmerian period and Scythian and Sarmatian times to the early Slavs of the 1st millennium CE. They were first described by Erik Lasote, ambassador to emperor Rudolf, in 1594, who recorded "seven beacons, images cut from stone, and they ...

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• Ukrainian stone stela - Copper Age and Bronze Age
• Ukrainian stone stela - Cimmerians
• Ukrainian stone stela - Scythians and Sarmatians
• Ukrainian stone stela - Early Slavs

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A chronology of the Bible's major events and figures based largely on the Old Testament, New Testament, and Mishna sources, and on the work of James Ussher. Dates in the Bronze Age are traditional and do not have archaeological corroborations. Dates in the Iron Age and later are placed by the Bible into the wider framework of history, and so are dated by biblical references to historically verifiable events, such as Shishak's raid in 925 BCE. For a historical look at the bible see The Bible and history See Short chronology for a more detailed history of th ...

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• Bible chronology - Bronze age
• Bible chronology - Iron age to Babylonian exile
• Bible chronology - Second temple period
• Bible chronology - New Testament period
• Bible chronology - Anno Domini

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A sword (Old English: sweord; akin to Old High German: swerd, "wounding tool"; Proto-Indo-European: *swer-, "to wound, to hurt") is a long-edged bladed weapon, consisting in its most fundamental design of a blade, usually with two edges for striking and cutting, and a point for thrusting, and a hilt. The basic intent and physics of swordsmanship remain fairly constant, but the actual techniques vary between cultures and periods as a result of the differences in blade design and purpose. The names given to many swords in ...

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• Sword - History
• Sword - Bronze Age
• Sword - Iron Age
• Sword - Middle Ages
• Sword - Late Middle Ages and Renaissance
• Sword - Modern Age
• Sword - Terminology
• Sword - Typology
• Sword - Double-edged swords
• Sword - Single edged weapons
• Sword - Training swords
• Sword - Classification
• Sword - Punishment devices
• Sword - Symbolism

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Architecture Cinema Comic books Cuisine Dance Literature Music Poetry Sculpture Television Theater Visual arts An American comic book is a small magazine containing a narrative in the comics form. Since the invention of the comic book format in the 1930s, the United States has been the leading producer with only the British comic (durin ...

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• American comic book - History
• American comic book - The Platinum Age
• American comic book - The Golden Age
• American comic book - The Comics Code
• American comic book - The Silver Age
• American comic book - Underground comics
• American comic book - The Bronze Age
• American comic book - The Modern Age
• American comic book - The superhero genre's dominance in American comic books
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By chronology Prehistoric Britain Iron Age Britain Roman Britain Sub-Roman Britain Medieval Britain Early Modern Britain Modern Britain By nation History of England History of Ireland History of Scotland History of Wales By topic Constitutional history Economic histor ...

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• Prehistoric Britain - Preface
• Prehistoric Britain - The Palaeolithic
• Prehistoric Britain - Lower Palaeolithic
• Prehistoric Britain - Middle Palaeolithic
• Prehistoric Britain - Upper Palaeolithic
• Prehistoric Britain - Mesolithic
• Prehistoric Britain - The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition
• Prehistoric Britain - The Neolithic
• Prehistoric Britain - The Bronze Age
• Prehistoric Britain - The Iron Age
• Prehistoric Britain - Late pre-Roman Iron Age LPRIA
• Prehistoric Britain - Bibliography

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Bronze Age. See HESIOD, AGES OF; DVAPARA YUGA

(See also: Bronze Age, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Even though Scandinavians joined the European Bronze Age cultures fairly late through trade, Scandinavian sites present rich and well-preserved objects made of wool, wood and imported Central European bronze and gold. During this period Scandinavia gave rise to the first known advanced civilization in this area, following the Nordic Stone Age. The Scandinavians adopted many central European and Mediterranean symbols at the same time that they created new styles and objects. Mycenaean Greece, the Villanovan culture, Phoenicia and Ancient Egyp ...

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Nordic Bronze Age, Nordic Bronze Age - General characteristics, Nordic Bronze Age - Sub-periodization, Nordic Bronze Age - Climate, Nordic Bronze Age - Religion

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Not much is known about the Nordic Bronze Age religion since written sources are lacking. However numerous archeaological finds draw a vague picture of what the religion might have been, or possibly some sects of it and possibly only certain tribes. In general most scholars agree that the Bronze Age religion was centered around the sun or a sun god. The sun was carried across the sky on a wagon pulled by a horse. A pair of twin gods are believed to have been worshipped, and is reflected in a duality in all things sacred: where sacrifi ...

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Nordic Bronze Age, Nordic Bronze Age - General characteristics, Nordic Bronze Age - Sub-periodization, Nordic Bronze Age - Climate, Nordic Bronze Age - Religion

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The Nordic Bronze Age was characterized by a warm climate (which is compared to that of the Mediterranean), which permitted a relatively dense population, but it ended with a climate change consisting of deterioriating, wetter and colder climate (sometimes believed to have given rise to the legend of the Fimbulwinter) and it seems very likely that the climate pushed the Germanic tribes southwards into continental Europe. During this time there was Scandinavian influence in Eastern Europe (and a thousand years later, the numerous East Germani ...

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Nordic Bronze Age, Nordic Bronze Age - General characteristics, Nordic Bronze Age - Sub-periodization, Nordic Bronze Age - Climate, Nordic Bronze Age - Religion

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This script is known from carved graffiti in Canaan (Palestine) and the Sinai peninsula, most famously from a turquoise-mining area of the Sinai called Serabit el-Khadim (serābîţ el-xâdem). These mines were worked by prisoners of war from southwest Asia who presumably spoke a West Semitic language, such as the Canaanite that was ancestral to Phoenician and Hebrew. The Serabit el-Khadim inscriptions we ...

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Middle Bronze Age alphabets, Middle Bronze Age alphabets - The Proto-Sinaitic script, Middle Bronze Age alphabets - The Wadi el-Hol script, Middle Bronze Age alphabets - Origin of the alphabet?, Middle Bronze Age alphabets - Egyptian prototypes, Middle Bronze Age alphabets - Literature

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The Egyptian hieratic script was basically logographic, but used rebus and acrophony extensively. There was a complete set of uniliteral glyphs from at least 2700 BCE — that is, the hieroglyphic script contained an alphabetic subsystem within it. But while logographic systems such as Egyptian and Chinese are extremely time-consuming to learn, they are sometimes considered superior to alphabets when it comes to reading. For literate Egyptians, there was little advantage to whittling their script down to a pure alphabet. Purely unili ...

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Middle Bronze Age alphabets, Middle Bronze Age alphabets - The Proto-Sinaitic script, Middle Bronze Age alphabets - The Wadi el-Hol script, Middle Bronze Age alphabets - Origin of the alphabet?, Middle Bronze Age alphabets - Egyptian prototypes, Middle Bronze Age alphabets - Literature

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Only the Colless reconstruction is shown here. For the Albright identification of the Egyptian prototypes, see the Proto-Canaanite alphabet. A third interpretation can be found at the Phoenician alphabet article. The alphabetical order of these scripts is unknown. They are conventionally presented in the ancient Levantine order because this corresponds to our own alphabet. However, the South Semitic order, h l ħ m q w š r t s k n x b ..., is also attested from the Late Bronze Age and may be just as old as the Levantine. (See ...

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Middle Bronze Age alphabets, Middle Bronze Age alphabets - The Proto-Sinaitic script, Middle Bronze Age alphabets - The Wadi el-Hol script, Middle Bronze Age alphabets - Origin of the alphabet?, Middle Bronze Age alphabets - Egyptian prototypes, Middle Bronze Age alphabets - Literature

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