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Bronze' Age"
1. a period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and preceding the Iron Age, during which bronze weapons and implements were used.
2. (
l.c.)
Class. Myth.the third of the four ages of the human race, marked by war and violence; regarded as inferior to the silver age but superior to the following iron age.
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