Bronze

Okay.

One other thing we know about this civilization, which is why we call it a Bronze Age civilization, is that they knew how to work bronze as a metal.

So we have the example of what is famously known as the dancing girl, which is a little bronze figurine, etc.

And bronze was a massive technological shift.

Brass, berenj.

Bronze, mafragh, mafragh.

Bronze, mafragh.

Or chodon, chodon.

Bronze, chodon.

Cement, ohak, ohak.

Cement, ohak.

Gold medal.

Bronze medal, a one-colour display.

Silver medal, three different fruit and veg of the same colour.

Are you off now? Are you drifting off? No,

Never mind.

Silver medal, round of beans.

I mean, listen, how did I do all this? Bronze, French beans, silver, six tomatoes, any colour, same or different variety.

Well, who

Um, this will be my...

I'm gonna start doing bronze, silver, and gold for the people who know.

Bronze, Washington minus 26 and a half against Utah State, and silver, Navy minus four and a half against Florida Atlantic.

Just, just bringing in a whole new four presidencies and new scoring system, a new, a new judgment.

Well, for the people out there like, "Hey, what do you really love?" Silver, bronze, gold, I think is a pretty easy formula to, to, to run with.

It's odd to say it that way, but yes, I get it.

Silver, bronze, gold.

Bronze, silver, gold.

There were royal marriages between dynasties, treaties defining borders and mutual defence obligations, and an entire diplomatic vocabulary for negotiating everything from military alliances to trade disputes.

And underneath all that diplomacy sat something even more fundamental – trade not casual trade either structural load-bearing trade that entire economies depended on take bronze the single most important material of the age the thing that gave the era its name Bronze isn't found in nature.

You have to make it, and making it means combining copper with tin.

The problem is that copper and tin rarely exist in the same place.

Cyprus had some of the richest copper deposits in the entire Mediterranean world.

Tin, on the other hand, had to travel enormous distances, likely from sources as far away as Central Asia or Western Europe, passing through multiple middlemen before it ever reached a Bronze Age workshop.

Which means every bronze sword, every bronze plough, every bronze fitting on a chariot represented the end of a supply chain that could stretch thousands of miles.

Then there was timber.

So perished the Second Race; but when Cronus would have bound their spirits with fiery chains in the underworld Earth withstood him saying: "These knew not the evil that they did being without law or teachers.

Torment them not, but let such punishment await the races yet to come,—the men of Bronze and of Iron whose crimes will be done against Law and against knowledge of the Right." So he let them alone to dwell among the nether powers of Earth; and in the aftertime they became avenging spirits issuing forth by night to haunt the evildoer and the shedder of blood.

But for a long while there were no men in the land of the living; and many tribes of beasts perished likewise in the great snowstorm of Cronus whose huge bones are seen unto this day in caverns where they betook themselves for refuge.

Slowly, very slowly Earth roused herself from her sleep of grief and shook off the pall of snow and ice so slowly in truth that it clings to her still in the uttermost solitudes of the north where the wandering traveler may yet behold the Winter of the Silver Age.

"Polyhymnia?" Then pulling off the kerchief, "I have guessed well," said she.

"Now, Orpheus, have you too made your choice?" "Please you, ladies all," said the boy, "I have heard what happened in the Age of Gold and the Age of Silver; and it seems there was a Third Age when the men of clay began to live on earth after the great snowstorm of Cronos.

I would hear now the name of the Third Age, and whether it also passed away or still endures." "It was called the Age of Bronze," answered the fair-haired Polyhymnia; "and I will tell you the reason, and how it likewise came to an end." And she did so in these words: In process of time twelve fair daughters were born to Pandora and Epimetheus; and when they were maidens grown, they were given in marriage to the twelfth tallest and goodliest of the men of clay.

Now the time came for Pandora to die, for she had fulfilled the span of years that the Fates allotted to her.

kill bronze.

Oof.

Bronze is the worst one.

You wouldn't wear bronze in jewellery.

And who wants a bronze medal if you had a choice of the three?