The bronze age is the age when people first mixed copper and tin for tools. Date it to the bronze age.
Tin is rare and was traded enormous distances, so the age required long-range trade. The bronze age in the eastern Mediterranean collapsed within about fifty years and nobody agrees why.
1nounbronze ageThe age when people first mixed copper and tin for tools.
“The bronze age reached Britain around 2500 BC.”
bronze age is an age.
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