The Berlins of THE STONE BRONZE AND IRON AGES INNOVATIONS FROM PAST CIVILIZATIONS IZZI HOWELL CRABTREE PUBLISHING COMPANY WWW.CRABTREEBOOKS.COM
thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand years years years years years years ago ago ago ago ago ago is a of the reconstruction the face man stone bronze and of a iron ages Who The Stone Bronze and Iron Ages cover a long period of history They stretch from the time of the first ancestors of modern humans who lived over two million years ago through to the first modern humans and up to the time of the ancient civilizations It was a period of great discovery and change as humans began to use tools grow crops and work with metal These inventions had a huge impact on prehistoric life in Britain 10,000 years ago Lived This map shows how and when early humans traveled and settled across the globe This who 4
What happened The names Stone Age Bronze Age and Iron Age are terms that historians use to divide up different stages in history The Stone Age is defined by the use of stone tools while people worked with bronze during the Bronze Age and then began using iron tools in the Iron Age bronze other and metals Iron Age e people also such worked with gold This Bronze Age pottery model of a horse-drawn chariot was found in what is now Lebanon Where The Stone Bronze and Iron Ages began and finished at different times around the world For example the Iron Age began 500 years earlier in the Middle East than in Europe In Europe the end of the Iron Age is considered the start of the great ancient civilizations such e the ancient Greeks and Romans Some areas never went through certain periods People in South America did not work with bronze or iron and therefore did not experience the Bronze or Iron Ages The Great Ziggurat of Ur was built by the Sumerian civilization in Mesopotamia modern-day Iraq in the Bronze Age The building has been restored to show what it would have looked like thousands of years ago 5
