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Bronze Age trade routes continually expand because copper is plentiful but tin sources are scattered and must be connected.
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Bronze Age trade routes continually expand because copper is plentiful but tin sources are scattered and must be connected.
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Because tin and copper were found in scattered places, making bronze required trade across nearly the entire known world, from India toward Britain and beyond the core Mediterranean network.
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"...So, what's going to happen is this. The green is the copper sources. Okay? And as you can see, there's a lot of copper..."
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"...reach a point when it's completely globalized. When every source of copper and tin has been discovered and there's a massive trade network built..."
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"...very structure of their economy. Bronze is an alloy made of copper and tin. Copper and tin you have to mine. And only a..."
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"Copper is mainly found in Cyprus, and Crete, and also in Anatolia. Now, meaning, and what this means is, in order to make bronze,..."
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"...bronze bronze as you know is an alloy of tin and copper so you need both in order to create bronze which is the..."
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"...how, in a proto -capitalistic system, that depends on tin and copper, how do you make money?"
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"...ingots. Ingots are just ways to transport the tin and the copper. Okay? You can also manufacture into jewelry, pottery, and weapons. Okay, that..."
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"...These are ingots. Okay? This is how you transport tin and copper. You transform it into ingots. And what's going to happen is that..."
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"...was in heavy demand, and the main components of bronze are copper and tin. Tin is mainly found in the mountains of Afghanistan, over..."
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"...a huge difference, because bronze armor is much more stronger than copper armor, okay? So these two places are driving demand, and as such,..."
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"...make bronze, you need to create an alloy between tin and copper. But also, what's important to understand is we humans have been trading..."
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"...Okay? Resources. America gave oil and food. 80 % of all copper. 55 % of aluminum and steel. Okay? Technology. America gave the Soviet..."
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Bronze begins as a weapon, becomes status, hardens into currency, and then teaches the world the dangerous rhythm of capital: rapid growth, total interconnection, elite consolidation, and sudden collapse.
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The Bronze Age Collapse is not treated as a freak disaster.
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