The Early Bronze Age

The Late Bronze Age

The Early Bronze Age
(23rd to 16th century B.C.)

The Bronze Age is the time of technological progress, speeded up by the discovery of bronze (alloy of copper and tin), the first artificial metal.

This significantly harder metal, suitable for the production of good-quality tools and weapons, was a stimulus for the development of various crafts and a livelier trade and, in harmony with this, basic economic and social changes occurred. In this relatively peaceful era there occurred the formation of a range of new cultural groups.