Bronze Age Flashcards

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Bronze Age

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a period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and preceding the Iron Age, during which bronze weapons and implements were used.

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Bronze

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a metallic brownish color.

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Smith

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a worker in metal.

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Mining

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the laying of explosive mines.

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Smelting

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to fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.

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Casting

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Then they poured the liquid metal into the moulds and left it to set.

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Lunula

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something shaped like a narrow crescent, as the small, pale area at the base of the fingernail.

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Torc

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A necklace made out of gold.

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fulacht fiadh

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Bronze Age BBQ.

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Wedge tomb

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a Neolithic chamber tomb found in the British Isles, having a trapezoidal or D-shaped cairn and a long, narrow chamber opening into it from the wider, higher side.

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Cist grave

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Bronze Age people buried their dead in.

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Stone circle

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These are all upright stones arranged in circles or rows.

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