The Three Age System: Stone, Bronze, and Iron
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Iron Age Civilizations
Iron has a much higher melting point, and that made it much harder to work technically. If you add carbon to the mix, which would happen naturally if yo coal, you can turn iron into steel. And steel is a way better than bronze. Many of the ancient civilizations i've talked about in this show are iron age civilizations. The romans, the greeks, the hittites, the persians, the chinese shang dynasty, the indian maurian dynasty were all iron aged dynasties. Putting an to the iron age is just as ambiguous as the start date. A normal date which is given is usually around the year 500 to 800. No one
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