From The Bronze Age To The Iron Age: Was Iron REALLY Better Than Bronze?

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From the Bronze Age to the Iron Age on this video we will discover what was it that made iron such an age changing metal.

An alloy made mainly of copper, bronze was the main hard metal in use for e very long period of time. To obtain this particular alloy people mixed tin, or alluminium or zinc or manganes or nickel with copper (sometimes they mixed even non-metals or metalloids with copper), producing a variety of alloys with many different qualities. The historical times when bronze was the material of choice for making weapons and tools and other stuff was the Bronze Age. This Age was followed by the Iron Age that started around 1300 BC.
Iron is a chemical element (Chemical Symbol Fe, from Latin: ferrum). It is the most common element on Earth, being the main building element of Earth's core (both outer and inner core). Of all the elements in the Earth's crust Iron is the fourth most common.
One of the elements that we know for sure it was known to the ancient world, Iron has been worked for many many centuries. Even so, ancient objects made of iron are rarer than objects made of other elements like gold or silver, and that's because the fast way with which iron corrodes. The technology that allowed to work iron developed slowly, and it took quite some time, actually centuries, for objects made of iron to become the tools (or weapons) of choice and replace the ones made of bronze.

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