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The Bronze Age: "Golden Age" of the prehistoric one



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excerpt from the paperback "The Bronze Age" by Ernst Probst old German spelling

The Bronze Age is known that the era of human history, the first time on a larger scale of a compound of the metals copper and tin - namely Bronze - tools, weapons and jewelry were taken. Under the earlier, much longer Stone Age to the Bronze Age in Europe, with their relatively short duration of up to 1,500 years, the second-longest periods in prehistory.
The Bronze Age began - after the ancient bronze objects close to - in Mesopotamia, Egypt, on the Mediterranean island of Crete, in Troy and Southeastern Europe as early as 2500 BC, took in some parts of central Europe about 2300 BC, its beginning and continued in northern Europe until about 1600 BC. The Bronze Age ended with the advent of iron, ie with the Hittites in Asia Minor already 1300 BC, in Greece about 1200 BC, in Italy and the Balkans around 1000 BC in parts of Central Europe v 800 . BC and northern Europe until about 500 BC Bronze Age cultures in Europe, Africa and Asia exist. Was
The term "Bronze Age introduced in 1836 in a museum catalog by the Danish archaeologist Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (1788-l865) from Copenhagen. Instead of the name suggested the Bronze Age prehistory Christian Strahm of Freiburg in a lecture in April 1991, the term "Metallikum before" because one can speak only from that portion of a widespread metallurgy. Strahm referred to the Early Bronze Age in Central Europe as a "building phase" and the developed Early Bronze Age 'industrial stage' of metallurgy.
until the Bronze Age, the origins of ancient times, that of the classical Greco-Roman antiquity or back. The historians date the beginning of the ancient mixed. You can either begin with the ancient world of the early Greek immigration in Greece before 1500 BC or later only with the actual Greek history about 500 years. Also in terms of the end of ancient times they disagree. There is certain historical events - marked - such as the start of the sole reign of Constantine 324 AD or the dismissal of the last Western Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus by the mercenary leader Odoacer in 476 AD.
give Besides the numerous archaeological finds, written sources from the Bronze Age life information, because in this period, the writing in Egypt, Sumer and Babylon was already known and was introduced in Crete, Phoenicia and Greece. So located, for example, Egypt from the period after 2000 BC, the duration of the different dynasties, the reign of the pharaohs their names and dates of important events before. This framework of numbers sometimes provides valuable evidence for dating questions.