Iron Age
The next phase of the Chalcolithic Age, which succeeded the
Bronze Age, copper is called the Iron Age. It carried the
achievements of the Copper-Bronze Age to their logical conclusion.
The most distinctive success of the Iron Age is the discovery
of iron. By adding this new dimension to the metallurgical
technology, the use of metals because more extensive. That
is, the use of metals, has become more popular. Copper is
a rare metal, and therefore can not be used by large numbers
of people and a large number of activities.
Another remarkable development of the Iron Age is the invention
of writing. The urban revolution gave rise to a class intellectual
free from manual work began to focus on intellectual pursuits.
His main achievement was the invention of writing. He did
this by making written sysbols stand for sounds rather than
words, developing an alphabet. Rather than being limited to
afficials, writing has become a popular activity among priests,
intellectuals and other elite sections of the population.
With this transfer of knowledge and tradition was remarkably
easy and the path has been cleared to advance knowledge in
leaps and bounds. The outcome of this revolution was the most
immediate and visible. This is evident in the fundamental
transformation of the attitude of every man against nature.
The intellectual revolution which was inaugurated during the
average period of the Iron Age has replaced, at least partially,
what kind of vision of the world with a new one. The new vision
of the world has tried to conceive of nature, not in terms
of gods and goddesses, but in terms of principles. For the
first time in history, humans began to ask the question: what
is the fundamental principle underlying nature or reality.
The transition from gods principles permissible for a man
to go in search of explanations that resulted in philosophy
and science. Thus, we have the beginning of science in the
sense of theoretical science autonomous and independent of
its technological application. Instead of being a shadow of
technical know-how, science has become the light that illuminated
the path to the understanding of nature in terms of a search
for the most part as a general principle underlying reality
. The science and philosophy have had the effect of freeing
the man in the thinking animist. The new philosophy of science
and new are mandated to provide a new era of bold speculation
in terms of basic constituents and the basic principles underlying
nature.
(In archaeology, the Iron Age was the stage in the development
of any people in which tools and weapons whose main ingredient
was iron were prominent. The adoption of this material coincided
with other changes in some past societies often including
differing agricultural practices, religious beliefs and artistic
styles, although this was not always the case.
The Iron Age is the last principal period in the three-age
system for classifying pre-historic societies, preceded by
the Bronze Age. Its date and context vary depending on the
country or geographical region.)
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