The Bronze age occurred before the Iron age because Bronze is easier to harvest from ores than iron. Bronze is also easier to shape than iron.
Iron is more brittle than bronze and is harder, but iron rusts and bronze doesn't.Iron is a pure substance and is oxidised relatively easily. Iron has to be coated with paint, oil, plastic, chrome, zinc to stop it from reacting with the oxygen in the air.Bronze, however, is a mixture of copper and tin. Bronze tools were used by many civilizations but iron tended to be stronger. Especially the alloy of iron that is mixed with carbon to form steel. Civilizations that had iron weapons tended to be able to conquer those that did not. A good example is the way Europeans conquered South America or indigenous populations in many countries.AnswerBronze is a mixture of Copper and Tin and harder than pure Iron which is a single metal. The addition of other metals such as 1 to 2% phosphorus makes bronze even harder. This is why Phosphor-Bronze is used for bearings. Some modern Bronzes have used other metals in the alloy such as aluminum, manganese, and zinc The main advantage of iron, and why humans used it more, is simply that it is cheaper and more abundant.
Copper was the first metal used by humans, dating back to around 9000 BCE. Bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, came next around 3300 BCE. Iron was used last, with widespread use starting around 1200 BCE.
Using iron instead of bronze.
Iron rusts fastest compared to bronze. Iron is more susceptible to corrosion due to its chemical composition, which reacts with oxygen in the air to form iron oxide (rust). Bronze, on the other hand, is a copper alloy that is more resistant to corrosion compared to iron.
Bronze is a relatively malleable metal, making it easier to bend than materials like steel or iron. However, the ease of bending bronze can depend on its specific composition and alloying elements. Overall, bronze is commonly used in applications where some level of malleability is required.
No, bronze is an alloy traditionally made by combining copper with tin. Iron and zinc are not typically used in the production of bronze.
The Iron Age.
Refining Iron from ore requires a lot more heat than formulating bronze.
Iron became more widely used than bronze because it was more readily available and easier to extract from ores. Iron also had other advantages over bronze, such as being harder and more durable, making it better for tool and weapon production. Additionally, iron was cheaper and more abundant than bronze, making it accessible to a larger number of people.
The development of iron ended the bronze age. The bronze age was calle the bronze age because the main thing used to make tools was bronze, so when they developed iron tools the name changed
Iron was used to make tools that had been previously made of bronze. Such as knives, swords, arrow heads, ect.
Bronze was used before Iron because it was easier to find, mine, and mold to the uses that they needed. People did not have the technology or the wherewithal to mine, use, or sustain Iron ore in the mainstream economy. The primary reason Bronze was used in toolmaking well before Iron has to do with the fact that Iron melts at a much higher temperature than either Tin or Copper (the component metals in Bronze). Both Tin and Copper can be melted at temperatures obtainable by wood fires, while Iron requires special "boosted" fires based on charcoal or coal. The understanding of how to create these very-high-temperature fires is critical to the use of iron; thus, Iron was not used until someone was able to invent such higher-temperature fires.
Iron was used to make tools that had been previously made of bronze. Such as knives ...
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They used terracotta, bronze and iron. Liked funerary art.
The used copper, bronze, lead, gold, silver, electrum and, iron. They did not start working iron until the late bronze age; And they started producing it until the Iron age II.
Bronze and iron were an important introduction because they were a new, stronger medium for weaponry. By creating bronze and iron weapons, warfare was revolutionized.