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Bronze Age

Meaning in history, with examples

/ˈbrɒnz eɪdʒ/nounCommon term

In history, Bronze Age means: The period when people made tools and weapons mainly from bronze, an alloy of copper and tin; in the Near East roughly 3300 to 1200 BC.

In Turkish: Tunç Çağı, Bronz Çağı

How it is used

Part of the three-age system (Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages); dates differ by region. It is divided into the Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age. The Late Bronze Age collapse around 1200 BC ended several states, including the Hittite kingdom.

Example sentences

  1. Troy was an important city in the Late Bronze Age.

  2. The Uluburun shipwreck, found off Kaş, carried about ten tons of copper ingots from the Late Bronze Age.

Common collocations

  • the Late Bronze Age
  • the Early Bronze Age
  • the Bronze Age collapse
  • Bronze Age settlement
  • NeolithicRelating to the New Stone Age, when people began farming, keeping animals and living in permanent villages, starting around 10,000 BC in the Near East.
  • prehistoryThe long period of human history before writing was invented, known mainly through archaeology, fossils and other physical remains.
  • ancientBelonging to the very distant past, especially to the period before the end of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century AD.
  • archaeologyThe study of the human past through the material remains people left behind, such as buildings, tools, pottery, bones and traces in the soil.

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