5 INVENTIONS OF MEN IN THE AGE OF METALS - HISTORY - 2025

The inventions of men in the Metal Age include advances in metallurgical technique and tools developed in the period between 6500 and 1000 BC.

During this period that began after the Stone Age, man discovered metals and began to work on them to create weapons and basic tools that would serve to replace stone.

Agriculture and domestication of animals also meant the abandonment of nomadism in favor of settlements, which resulted in more defined social structures.

Here are some of the most important inventions of the metal age:

Metallurgical Development

After discovering that metals could be melted and molded, metallurgy was invented. The discovery, whether by chance or experimentation, made it possible to replace the precarious stone tools with ones made to measure from molten copper.

Copper was eventually fused with tin to create bronze, until 1000 years later iron began to be worked.

Mining Development

Advances in metallurgy turned into increased demand for raw materials. It was no longer enough to find them by chance, you had to look for them and that started the metal trade.

Anatolia (now Turkey) and Egypt start mining and metal trading.

Agriculture Development

With moderately developed settlements and after abandoning nomadism, the crops could not be left to chance.

Irrigation systems, new crops and the plowing of the land were essential to have food in a regular and predictable way.

The cultivation of grapes, olive trees and other plants benefited from new techniques and the use of tools forged with metals, such as sickles, plows and hoes.

Livestock development

The domestication of species made meat available. The donkeys and oxen were also useful for work and transport of goods. From sheep they obtained wool, milk and cheese and yogurt were discovered.

Trade: The Wheel and the Boat

By the end of the Iron Age the wheel was invented, which allowed the expansion of trade. Originally made of solid wood, the wheel doubled the amount of load that could be carried on the shoulders.

The development and dominance of the sea lanes, as well as their navigation, resulted in the invention of the sail to power ships and with this the navigation began.

Other inventions

The rudimentary kiln, made of stones, allowed the cooking of food, the smelting of metals to forge tools and the development of ceramics for the elaboration of vessels.

Together with the grain mill, also invented at this time, it gave rise to primitive forms of bread.

Social structures also evolved. By becoming sedentary, they begin to form the first societies. Social status is also defined, by creating distinctions between privileged social classes and abolishing equality.

The first calendars, basketry and textile development also date from this period.

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