Bronze Age

The creation of and use of bronze alloys by combining copper and tin. Transition from furs to cloth. Equivalently ancient Egyptian dynasties and the ancient Greeks.

Materials

bronze tools and weapons, crude glass items, linen, papyrus, wool

Armor

breastplate, leather armor, padded armor

Weapons

composite shortbow, short sword

Warfare

organized armies, city walls (large city-states only)

Settlements

capitals, cities, towns

Social Organization

city-states

Transportation

chariot, oars, sails, side rudder, wheel

General

agriculture, corbelled arch, hand loom, lever, oil lamp, plow, potter’s wheel, pulley, sundial