Bronze Age Impact On Society

The Bronze Age was the time for change and advancement in all things ancient. The use of copper and mixing other metals became a large part of people's lives. Farming also became large in the bronze age, plows and animals help farmers. The new metal materials proved to be good for several uses warfare and movement especially. The society even changed with the rest of the world, people became more knowledgeable and civilized. The Bronze Age brought much needed change. The study and molding of metal such as smelting, casting, and combining is called Metallurgy. People became curious about the use of metals and started to experiment with mixing to create new metals. Once stumbling upon bronze,by combining 90% copper and 10% tin, the users found that it was stronger than both it’s ingredients and stone tools. The mixing of metals helps make tools that anyone could use plows for farmers, and weapons such as swords and axes for combat. The act of Metallurgy is what brought upon the Bronze Age and the advancement of several tools.
Bronze reinvented farming in the best way possible, tools were made better, stronger and even lead to the invention of the plow. A bronze plow had better chances to be able to withstand circumstances than a wood or stone plow. Plows were used before in the bronze age, but only once in a blue moon. The Bronze age revolutionized farming and agriculture for everyone. The average farm of the Bronze Age was about the size of a large garden today. The farmers could only do so much as labor allowed them to and how much land they could clear. The bronze axe helped with this, the axe allowed farmers to clear large portions at a time, but the farmers were still bound by labor investments. Then the bronze plow came around and freed farmers from clearing large plots and