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

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

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combat and you get a bronze this process
was so important

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The Smiths have the richest graves they
were probably clan cheese the beginning

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of the Bronze Age you can imagine that
much of the metalworking was actually

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undertaken by the Chiefs themselves and
we now see this is a rather banal task

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that should be undertaken by my work
bernal craftsman my sort of lower status

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people but if you think of it as the
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 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

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

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transformation of walls into flashing
daggers and

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what

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the Bronze Age consists in the
introduction of edged 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
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 Brahms

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yeah

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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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get the weapons really show signs of use

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perhaps they were purely ceremonial
these leaders were breastplates and

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decorative metal jewelry again as
symbols of their wealth