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The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC. It was characterized by the use of bronze, ... Human Timeline (Interactive) ...
Helladic chronology is a relative dating system used in archaeology and art history. It complements the Minoan chronology scheme devised by Sir Arthur Evans for the categorisation of Bronze Age artefacts from the Minoan civilization within a historical framework. Whereas Minoan chronology is specific to Crete, the cultural and geographical ...
Jōmon pottery, Japanese Stone Age Trundholm sun chariot, Nordic Bronze Age Iron Age house keys Cave of Letters, Nahal Hever Canyon, Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The three-age system is the periodization of human prehistory (with some overlap into the historical periods in a few regions) into three time-periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, [1] [2] although the concept may ...
Afterward came a period of stability with the Assyrian Middle Kingdom, Hittite New Kingdom, and the Third Babylon Dynasty (Kassite). The Bronze Age collapse: A "Dark Age" begins with the fall of Babylonian Dynasty III (Kassite) around 1200 BC, the invasions of the Sea Peoples and the collapse of the Hittite Empire. [7]
Chalcolithic (or "Eneolithic", "Copper Age") Ancient history (The Bronze and Iron Ages are not part of prehistory for all regions and civilizations who had adopted or developed a writing system.) Bronze Age; Iron Age; Late Middle Ages. Renaissance; Early modern history; Modern history. Industrial Age (1760–1970) Machine Age (1880–1945) Age ...
List of Bronze Age states. The Bronze Age (c. 3300–1200 BC) marks the emergence of the first complex state societies, and by the Middle Bronze Age (mid-3rd millennium BC) the first empires. This is a list of Bronze Age polities. By the end of the Bronze Age, complex state societies were mostly limited to the Fertile Crescent and to China ...
The Nordic Bronze Age (also Northern Bronze Age, or Scandinavian Bronze Age) is a period of Scandinavian prehistory from c. 2000/1750–500 BC.. The Nordic Bronze Age culture emerged about 1750 BC as a continuation of the Battle Axe culture (the Scandinavian Corded Ware variant) and Bell Beaker culture, [1] [2] as well as from influence that came from Central Europe. [3]
The Late Bronze Age collapse was a time of widespread societal collapse during the 12th century BC. It was associated with environmental change, mass migrations, city destructions and trade route disruptions that limited bronze production. The collapse affected a large area of the Eastern Mediterranean (North Africa and Southeast Europe) and ...