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The Three-Age System

The Three-Age System. The Stone Age The Bronze Age The Iron Age. Guns, Germs & Steel. http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se-ina_bhJ0&list=UUvHAGCWCALwenR2MZuSo_xQ&index=17&feature=plcp

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The Three-Age System

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  1. The Three-Age System The Stone Age The Bronze Age The Iron Age

  2. Guns, Germs & Steel • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se-ina_bhJ0&list=UUvHAGCWCALwenR2MZuSo_xQ&index=17&feature=plcp • The why, in this case, places a heavy emphasis on the technology available to emerging civilizations. That technology can be described and placed chronologically by using the Three-Age System.

  3. Why the “Three-Age System”? • Greek poet Hesiod’s Works and Days defines the Ages of Man: Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic and Iron • Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (1788-1865) • This system is now used to categorize the ages of invention and progress before the Dark Ages • Based on tool use, but also a way to frame the evolution of man and society

  4. How reliable is it? • Reliable, but ambiguous • The Ages tend to overlap and are often disputed by experts • In some areas of the Earth, like Africa, certain groups went straight from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. • Rare groups, such as isolated Amazonian tribes in Brazil, have not yet progressed past the Stone Age.

  5. The Stone Age (2.5 mya – 6000 BCE) • Prehistoric cultural stage, or level of human development, characterized by the creation and use of stone tools. • Before the earliest civilizations, beginnings of Sumerians

  6. The Bronze Age (3300 BCE – 1200 BCE) • A period in a civilization's development when the most advanced metalworking consisted of smelting copper and tin into bronze. • Babylonians

  7. The Iron Age (1300 BCE – 500 AD) • Period in the development of industry that begins with the general use of iron in tools and other implements. • Ancient Greece

  8. What else was happening in the world during the Three Ages?How did people live? That’s up to you to find out!

  9. Timeline Groups • Stone Age: Cameron, Lindita, Andrea, Brian, Phil, Dan, Bobby, Quinn, Kellie • Bronze Age: Lauren, Mike, ChrisR., Melanie, Matt L., Lindsey, Krista, Jason, Chris S. • Iron Age: Ryan, Matt Malburg, Kristen, Josh, Matt Mount, Tim, Anna, Jim • Red = World Events; Blue = Age Events; Green = How People Lived During the Age

  10. What Needs to Be Included? • World Events: The Ages span across continents and dynasties, wars and legislation. • Age Events: Each Age is divided into sub-categories that have their own dates and significant happenings. • How People Lived: New technologies led to different cultures and ways of living. How did people live during each of these ages?

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