The Three-Age System

The Stone AgeThe Bronze Age

The Iron Age

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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.

Guns, Germs & Steel

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

Why the “Three-Age System”?

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.

How reliable is it?

Prehistoric cultural stage, or level of human development, characterized by the creation and use of stone tools.

Before the earliest civilizations, beginnings of Sumerians

The Stone Age (2.5 mya – 6000 BCE)

A period in a civilization's development when the most advanced metalworking consisted of smelting copper and tin into bronze.

Babylonians

The Bronze Age (3300 BCE – 1200 BCE)

Period in the development of industry that begins with the general use of iron in tools and other implements.

Ancient Greece

The Iron Age (1300 BCE – 500 AD)

What else was happening in the world during the Three

Ages?How did people live?

That’s up to you to find out!

Stone Age: Cameron, Lindita, Andrea, Brian, Phil, Dan, Bobby, Quinn, Kellie

Bronze Age: Lauren, Mike, Chris R., 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

Timeline Groups

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?

What Needs to Be Included?