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what's more they brought it out of 
smelting to the north

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they added a vital secret from Middle 
Eastern trading routes mix some tin to copper

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and you get bronze this process
 was so important

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The Swiss£¨Ò»¸öµØÃû£© have the richest graves they 
were probably cline chiefs 

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At the beginning of the Bronze Age you can imagine that 
much of the metal working 

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was actually undertaken by the chiefs themselves and
 we now see this is a rather banal task

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that should be undertaken by workman 
bernal craftsman by sort of lower status people

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but if you think of it just as a magical transformation of one thing into

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another then it's another way of showing 
off and demonstrating your power your

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status and securing your role in
society and so it's therefore very

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characteristic that you find the molds
 in rich graves in the graves of the chiefs

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so the people who are in charge 
of society are in charge of the

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transformation of wars into flashing 
daggers and weapon
 
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the Bronze Age consists in the 
introduction of edge weapons that you

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couldn't make effectively in stone 
daggers that increasingly get longer and

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longer and become swords spearheads 
that can be really effectively fixed on

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the end of a long pole so the whole 
nature of armament was transformed by

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the introduction of a really effective 
working metal Bronze

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these weapons exude power they are rare
 and dangerous

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we are seeing the birth of a military 
elite with the power to get exactly what

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they want

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here the weapons really show signs of use

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perhaps they were purely ceremonial
these leaders were breastplated and

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decorative metal jewelry again as 
symbols of their wealth