How did the Bronze Age advance technology?
The Bronze Age (c. 3300–2500 B.C.) represented an important advance in technology because people in the Middle East (present-day southwest Asia and northeast Africa) developed metallurgy, the science of separating metals from ores (minerals). That is, after digging ores they separated the metals, which they combined by melting. As they gradually learned to form metal into objects, they no longer had to rely on stones, bones, or wood for tools and weapons, which had previously been used during the New Stone Age (c.10,000–c. 3500 B.C.; Neolithic Period). The early Bronze Age (c. 3300–3500 B.C.) overlapped with the New Stone Age. During this period people made implements from pure copper, which tended to be brittle. Soon, however, they discovered that by mixing copper and tin they could make bronze, a metal that was harder and stronger than copper alone. Around 3500…
