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Ancient Warfare Podcast

AWA305 - What was the difference between bronze and iron?

Ancient Warfare Podcast

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Society & Culture, Greece, Warfare, Ancient, Rome, History, Military

4.4631 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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In a second question from his postcard, Gus asks, what was the difference between bronze and iron weapons and armour in terms of availability, hardness, temper and penetrating ability?

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0:00.0

Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of ancient warfare answers with me.

0:09.0

Murray, your 10-minute weekly fix of ancient warfare-related material to act as escapism, like an escape room, if you like.

0:18.2

I only say that because I didn't escape room recently from everyday life.

0:21.6

And of course, what I do here is attempt to answer questions sent in by viewers, listeners, people who have read the magazine and sent me a postcard.

0:29.6

This one, I'll get to in a second. And of course, you can ask us a question, send us an email, send us a postcard.

0:35.6

You can back us on Patreon, one of three levels legionary

0:40.8

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

0:48.0

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

0:53.8

weapons armor

0:54.4

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

0:58.9

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

1:03.7

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

1:12.5

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

1:18.4

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

1:25.2

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

1:32.0

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

1:40.4

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

1:45.4

So it's different in different areas.

1:47.4

Now, throughout the Bronze Age, there is iron.

1:50.1

So it's not that there is no iron.

1:53.1

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

1:57.6

which is a composite of both copper and tin.

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