Culture in the Bronze Age

It should not be believed that Culture in the Bronze Age men's lives had rudimentary notes or characteristics. On the contrary, life in society was remarkably developed: the manufacture of bronze weapons and utensils (spear, sword, daggers, rings, pins, etc.) reached a great technical and artistic growth, being able to say the same about the clay objects that formed the ceramics.

The stone buildings, the palaces, the temples, the walls, demonstrated a valuable architectural knowledge.

At the same time, a very active trade took place in various places in central and southern Europe, or in the Near East, which gave new impulses to civilization. Along the seas or the rivers, the boats transported the merchandise, the same happened on the land roads, on horseback or in carts pulled by oxen.

Gradually, the currency (metal balls, bars, rings) was replacing barter or exchange in trade.

To the Bronze Age correspond such rich and valuable types of civilization, as those of Troy described by the poet Homer in his Iliad, or those of the contemporary Greek cities of that region, or those of the great buildings and palaces found in various parts of the island of Crete, which reveal to what extent man had increased his resources, compared to his poor heritage in the period of the stone.

Life was more complete and refined. The differences between social classes were greater, between those who had wealth and those who lacked it, and between those who were free and those who were slaves.

In many regions, the Sabaeism or adoration of the stars continued, and the animism or belief in good and evil spirits that inhabited behind each phenomenon of nature, and magic also continued, but the cult of the Sun developed even more and the classes priestly.

The stories, whether oral, or already recorded in rudimentary forms of writing, occupied an outstanding role in the knowledge of the time. Men began by making drawings by taking models from nature, which they later turned into stylized pictographs or drawings, and later in hieroglyphs, immediate antecedents of writing phonetics.