The Bronze Age was during the time of the Mesopotamia, in the late Ur period, traversing the “Early Dynastic” time of Sumer, the Akkadian Empire, the Babylonian and Assyrian periods and the time of Kassite dominion. The Bronze Age people extensively use metal to developing trade networks between 3000 to 1200 BCE (Matthews et al., 2014). Human beings learned how to mine and use copper and tin to produce bronze. The bronze was harder and more durable than copper, which made bronze a better metal for tools, weapons, and jewelry; however, the earliest bronze was produced by artisans transmitted to Egypt, Greece, and everywhere else in the Middle East (Matthews et al., 2014). The Bronze Age inventors hammered mild bronze into the shape of body armor and helmets. The Bronze Age produced a host of technologies; however, writing started it all with Egyptians putting words on papyrus, which is a flat writing surface made from pressed reeds, and Mesopotamians incising words on clay tablets (Matthews et al., 2014). The invention of the wheel was created for horses to carry chariots and wagons making it easier for people to transport heavy objects and materials around from place to place (Hood, 2013). The chariots, body armor, and helmets made of bronze were also used during the time of war to help the Mesopotamian armies outfitted themselves with bronze spears, arrows, swords, and shields. Bronze Age culture was …show more content…
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