Bronze became so widely used across the land that now that era is referred to as the Bronze Age (3000 B.C. to 1000 B.C.) Then around 1000 B.C. was the introduction of Iron. The Bronze Age brought us large-scale architecture in Egypt and Mesopotamia. ... The art of this time show the trend of the Sumerian age. ... The major turning point is around 1000 B.C. with the end of the Bronze Age and the coming of the Iron Age, and the Greeks. ...

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Megalithic Age - Megalith is a Greek word meaning "large stone." ... The "megalithic age" lasted from 4000 B.C.E to 1500 B.C.E., spanning from as far north as Scandinavia and the British Isles to as far south as the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, and Malta. ... Hattusha was originally settled in the early Bronze Age around 2000 BC by Hattians, the indigenous people of north-central Anatolia. Soon an Old Assyrian merchant colony, or karma, was established there in the 19th-18th centuries BC (Middle Bronze Age). ... It was also fervent throughout Southwest Asia (the Middle East), the Nile and In...

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The Sumerian and Akkadian languages coexisted for about 1000 years until Sumerian dialects died out around 1800 BCE. ... The Gutians took over, but had no idea how to run a kingdom, so Sumer fell into a short dark age. ...

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