Brendan Chou APWhist P5

Bronze and Iron Ages

THE BRONZE AGE THE IRON AGE

1. Smelting copper and tin 1. When iron tools are prominent.

2. Near East - 1st Develop in Anatolia – BOTH (SIMILARITIES) 2. Iron = cheaper than bronze. 1st
much copper/tin 1. Bronze Age and Iron Age in the Near signs = Ancient Egypt/Sumer. –
3. Copper mines: Cyprus, Egypt, Negev East both began in Anatolia 4000BC. Iron from meteorites.
desert, Iran, Persian Gulf 2. Hittites changed politically due to (lacks nickel)
4. Early Bronze Age saw urbanization Bronze and Iron Age. 3. No iron age in Australasia/America
+invention of 3. Bronze/Iron Ages both helped spread 4. Earliest systematic use of iron =
writing. Aegean contacts and trade routes. 14th century BCE Hittite Empire.
5. Middle Bronze 4. Bronze/Iron Age increased weaponry 5. Indian Subcontinent-300BC-200AD, steel
Age = changing political pattern. and power. produced in S. India. –crucible technique:
6. Late Bronze Age = competing powerful 5. Increased trade in almost all areas Glass/iron/charcoal mixed in crucible+smelted.
kingdoms and vassal affected. 6. Near East – Anatolia/Caucasus 2nd millennium BCE.
states. 6. Korea adopted both iron and bronze for 7. Iron weapons led to rise of the Hittites.
7. Copper helped contacts abstract purposes such as mortuary 8. Aegean = First developed iron in the Near East.
with Aegan civilization. purposes. 9. Sea Peoples/Philistines = Iron. Assyrians had contacts in
8. Ended in widespread 7. Bronze and Iron both affected the area in which iron first developed.
collapse-iron began already agriculture largely. 10. East Asia – Zhou Dynasty = cast-iron 6th century BC
in Late Bronze Age Anatolia. 11. Iron Age –Tibetan Plateau = Zhang Zhung culture.
9. East Asian Bronze Age - 12. Korean Peninsula: iron introduced via trade before
Erlitou/Shang/Sanxindui use bronze for Western Han Dynasty (300 BC). –Iron ingots = mortuary
rituals/farming/ weapons/mortuary offerings. 13. Iron Age in Africa – Steel = 1400BC North Africa
10.700-600B.C. Southern 14. Kushites in Meroe = important iron-smelting.
Korea-Middle Mumun pottery period – 15. Nok = 1st iron smelting in West Africa before 1000BC.
adopted bronze. Spread Southward to Cape around 200AD.
11. Aegean Bronze Age – Imported tin to 16. Bantu farmers used iron to drive out hunter-gatherers and
Cyprus where copper was mined+alloyed to expanded farms to wider areas of savannah.
produce bronze – Exported widely. 17. European Iron Age – 100BC-from Asia Minor, spread
12. Andean Bronze Age- 900BCE. west over 500 years.
Utilitarian at first, then decorative. Chavins = 18. Mediterranean Europe – Etruscan Iron Age ended with
highly skilled working in gold/silver/copper. Roman Republic rise. 265BC = last city of Velzna.

The Iron age and bronze age both affected the Southern Korean peninsula, changing the mortuary offerings from bronze to iron.
The Iron Age affected the lower-class such as the Bantu farmers while bronze affected mainly the upper class due to the expensive copper/tin.

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