Bronze Age articles – 4000 BC to 1000 BC

What happened in the Bronze Age?

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History

• Ancient Egypt –
• the Old Kingdom,
• the Middle Kingdom,
• and the New Kingdom
• Ancient Meroe and Aksum – Early Sudan
• East Africa
• Minoan Crete
• Mycenaean Greece
• Bronze Age Italy
• Northern Europe in the Bronze Age
• Sumerians
• Akkadians
• Hammurabi of Babylon
• Early Assyrians
• Hittites
• Shang Dynasty China
• Bronze Age Japan
• Late Archaic Native Americans

Daily Life

• Domestication of llamas
• Cattle in Central Asia
• Horses in Central Asia
• Donkeys in Sudan
• Invention of dice

Economics

• Mercenary soldiers from Sudan
• Spinning rope and fishing nets

Arts

• Bronze sculpture in West Asia
• Ancient Egyptian art
• Minoan and Mycenaean sculpture
• Minoan and Mycenaean painting
• Shang Dynasty Chinese art

Architecture

• Pyramids in Egypt
• Ziggurats in Mesopotamia
• Temples in Norte Chico
• Shang Dynasty houses and altars
• Shang Dynasty temples and walls

Science and Inventions

• The invention of bronze
• Numbers in ancient Mesopotamia
• Ancient Egyptian medicine
• Early Indian medicine
• Hieroglyphic writing
• Cuneiform writing
• Linear A and Linear B
• Early alphabets

Projects

• A project with bronze
• Code of Hammurabi project
• Building a sand pyramid
• Making yogurt
• Make a cuneiform tablet