The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD. still clumsy andquickly lost their edge

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The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD. still clumsy andquickly lost their edge. Soonmen learned to mix a little tinwith the copper in the fire. Thisformed a metal we call bronze.Bronze is easily worked, andafter cooling, it is much harderthan either of its parts alone.The men of the Bronze Ageequipped themselves with toolsand weapons of keener and morelasting edge, and more convenientform, than ever before. Withthese, they easily conquered themore poorly armed Stone Agemen about them, and also added to their own physical comfort.The use of bronze seems to have developed indepen The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD. still clumsy andquickly lost their edge. Soonmen learned to mix a little tinwith the copper in the fire. Thisformed a metal we call bronze.Bronze is easily worked, andafter cooling, it is much harderthan either of its parts alone.The men of the Bronze Ageequipped themselves with toolsand weapons of keener and morelasting edge, and more convenientform, than ever before. Withthese, they easily conquered themore poorly armed Stone Agemen about them, and also added to their own physical comfort.The use of bronze seems to have developed independentlyin various centers; and by war and trade, it spread over wideregions. Finally, men learned to smelt and use iron. This marked astill greater advance, — the most important gain after the dis-covery of fire. By the opening of the Iron Age, or soon after-ward, man has usually invented or adopted an alphabet, andMs history proper has begun. Sometimes, as with the peopleswe shall study first, history begins long before the close of theBronze Age.. Series of Axes : 1 and 2, Old Stone Age; 3, NewStone; 4, Bronze Age. §3] CONTRIBUTIONS TO CIVILIZATION Men have advanced at different rates in different parts of the earth.When Columbus discovered America, all the natives of the WesternHemisphere were in some part of the Stone Age, — as are still someremote tribes in our Philippines and in parts of South America, Africa, and Australia. But in the valleys of the Nile and Euphrates, the peo-ples we are first to study had risen out of this stage at least 7000 yearsago. Even among the same people, the different ages overlapped.Nobles and leaders used bronze weapons, while the poorer classes hadstill only their stone implements. 3. Our Inheritance from Prehistoric Man. — We are in positionnow to appreciate dimly how the earliest civilization rested. © The Reading Room

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