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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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Copper
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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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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Jiang says the long-term American goal is to strangle China by cutting it off from trade and from South American supplies such as copper, lithium, food, and oil.
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"...American waters. And so China will not be able to extract. Copper and lithium it needs. For its AI. And EV industries. It will..."
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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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"...to us scarcer to us it was shaped just like a copper basin gleaming new and counter course it crossed those paths the sun..."
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"...on the western hemisphere for access to uh silver lithium and copper as well as other rare earth minerals which fuels china's ai growth..."
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"...to china which includes oil of course but also includes lithium copper and silver which are crucial for high tech okay including solar panels..."
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"...This is important because China relies on the Western Hemisphere for copper, lithium, silver, rare earths that are crucial for the AI industry, for..."
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"...oil supply, but also for silver, for gold, for lithium, for copper, basically all the, um, minerals that, that China needs to power its..."
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"...best metal conductor in the world. And there's no second call. Copper is, is, um, second, but it's far behind silver. So you need..."
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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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