The Bronze Age

It is 3000 B.C., the New Stone Age societies grew into civilizations. Societies grew cities. There is a central government run by leaders who manage their cities and protect them. The government is responsible to keep the society in order, to provide help if needed and to administer large public buildings with irrigation projects that took place. Other than government jobs, there are many different professions as well, that people dedicate their time to. For example, there are many writers, artists, and architectures in the city. Aside from doing their regular job, they are also describing the civilization that Delena lives in. Delena is a 12 year old girl, her dad Adalfuns is an architect, and her mother Aelia is a writer. She is an only child and always gets whatever her heart desires.

A long time ago during 6600B.C. humans discovered that melting a certain rock at an incredibly high temperature, would separate the metal copper from the rock. That is when the first person from Delenas family tree started making tools out of copper. From then on all of Delenas male relatives are using copper tools and make them on their own. In Delenas world it is already known that mixing copper with tin becomes bronze. That gave Delenas dad Adalfuns a very good idea. Adulfuns started dabbling in tool making just like his dad did, he wanted to follow his footsteps. Although that is not the only reason he started working with tools. Adalfuns wanted to get more coins by trading those tools, so he could provide a great life for the 2 women in his life. He didn’t want to disappoint them.

Adalfuns started getting into tool making. It was like the tools were appearing on the table, so many were made in only 2 hours, he made more and more every minute, Adalfuns ended up having too much. Since him and his family were out of food for lunch, he needed to trade. He took the tools that were unnecessary, and traded them for food with many faraway cities. Aelia did the same with her pottery, weaved baskets, and cloths that weren’t needed. All the goods that they were trading were loaded into carts using an axle and a wheel. They were pushed to the faraway city but to the market as well. With this, Adalfuns was able to easily transport more goods to faraway cities.

This evening as in many evenings before ships carried goods and different products. Together with them lots of information traveled with the ship, which implies that more ideas were shared between cities. During the same evening just after dinner, Delena enjoyed watching out of her window at all the ships coming in her community, bearing all the heavy loads of goods and ideas that need to be shared. She supported her father Adalfuns while he was communicating with the foreign people. Discussing different tool ideas and trading other information along with goods.

Even though Delenas father was working very hard and trying his best, her family is not very prosperous, unlike some other families in their city. There are several social classes in the city, every family belongs to one of them. For example the priests of the cities religion are highly ranked members. However common workers and farmers were the lowest ranked of the society. Of course Delena wanted to be in the high class like the kings and queens in other cities, but that will never be possible, at least for now, however there is still hope in her far future. She positions her self in her bed and went right to sleep.