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optio and centurion now this is the second question from gus's postcard thank you gus about to go on

the wall in a second after i've read it classical greece what was the difference between bronze and iron

weapons armor

in terms of availability, hardness, temper and penetrating ability? It would be great to catch up

again when I am back in Sydney. Lovely. I look forward to that, Gus. Right, I'm going to put you,

now this is, I mean, this is here means you're covering Cicero and, yes, Cic, let's cover Cicero, a postcard from the Vatican

there from Gus. Now, it's really fascinating that we talk about the Bronze Age and the Iron Age,

because of course the Bronze Age, depending on where you are in the world, is fourth millennium

BC to end of the first millennium BC, basically, sorry, end of the second

millennium BC, so around 1,000 BC and 900 BC. Other parts of Europe and Central Asia, for instance,

people like to talk about the Bronze Age lasting until about 300 BC.

So it's different in different areas.

Now, throughout the Bronze Age, there is iron.

So it's not that there is no iron.

Iron is far more common in the world than bronze, of course,

which is a composite of both copper and tin.

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