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So, I am still in the preliminary stages of research for the timeline Not My Heifer, with a POD in the Copper Age. I am currently visiting my in-laws, and my brother-in-law put me onto YouTube video by Shadowversity that discussed early examples of steel... some of which seem to have come from the Bronze Age, although these early steel items were usually jewelry.


This got me thinking... what if the Bronze Age had been skipped? It would be a crying shame of course, cuz bronze is definitely beautiful, but... isn’t iron more abundant than copper and tin anyways? I mean, when you think about it, copper and tin don’t really occur next to each other in the first place, which meant that complex trading networks had to be developed for the mass production of bronze items to even be a thing in the first place. And when you think about it a little more, that was a very specific development in history, right? Who says that a Middle Eastern copper Smith ever gets the idea to mix copper and tin? Why not simply use iron, which is far more common than either?
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