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    Bronze Age Knowledge Organiser

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    The document provides information about the Bronze Age in Britain, including that it lasted around 1500 years from 2500-800 BC. Metalwork became more sophisticated during this period, with tools made from bronze rather than stone. The Bell Beaker culture arrived in Britain around 2500 BC and was thought to have introduced bronze working.

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    The document provides information about the Bronze Age in Britain, including that it lasted around 1500 years from 2500-800 BC. Metalwork became more sophisticated during this period, with tools made from bronze rather than stone. The Bell Beaker culture arrived in Britain around 2500 BC and was thought to have introduced bronze working.

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    The document provides information about the Bronze Age in Britain, including that it lasted around 1500 years from 2500-800 BC. Metalwork became more sophisticated during this period, with tools made from bronze rather than stone. The Bell Beaker culture arrived in Britain around 2500 BC and was thought to have introduced bronze working.

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    The Bronze Age KS2

    Key Events Timeline


    2500- The Bell Beaker Culture 5000 BC AD 500
    Stone Age Bronze Age Iron Age
    1500 BC arrived in Britain.
    Ancient Egypt Roman
    Metalwork became more Ancient Sumer Britain Stonehenge, completed
    2500- and more sophisticated 0 during the Bronze Age.
    800 BC - axes, daggers and
    spearheads. The Bronze Age
    • A period of time, with no written records, where early humans made tools
    1200- Celtic culture and tribal
    from bronze.
    800 BC kingdoms start to emerge.
    • The Bronze Age in Britain lasted around 1500 years.
    The Bronze Age came to an
    800 BC • The Bronze Age started at different times in different countries. People travelled to
    end and the Iron Age began.
    other countries and brought skills, tools and knowledge with them.
    Clothing • The use of bronze was brought to Britain around 2100 BC.
    • Made from wool woven into sheets • Bronze was used for tools, weapons, armour and building materials.
    of fabric.
    Houses Land
    • Women wore long,
    • Rectangular thatched buildings • Farming was a big part of life.
    woollen skirts and
    made from timber with walls of • People moved from the hills to the valleys where
    short tunics.
    wattle and daub. it was easier to grow food.
    • Men wore knee-
    • 6-10 people would live together. Weapons
    length wrap-
    • From 1500 BC, • Daggers, blades, spearheads, chisels, axes and
    around skirts
    roundhouses armour could all now be made out of
    (similar to kilts),
    • were more bronze which was harder and more
    tunics, cloaks and
    • common. durable than stone.
    woollen hats.

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    The Bronze Age KS2

    Key Vocabulary How Did the Bronze Age Spread around the World?
    Arsenic A natural material dug from 3600-3500 BC Bronze used as farm tools and weapons in the Middle East.
    bronze the ground. 3500-3001 BC Bronze started being used in eastern Europe and the Mediterranean.
    A type of metal made from 2500-2300 BC Bronze used in India and China.
    bronze copper and tin to make it
    2100 BC Bronze used in Britain to make weapons and tools.
    harder and more durable.

    A soft metal that, when added


    copper
    to tin, is made stronger.

    To melt in order to separate


    smelt
    different metals.

    An outer layer of clothing


    tunic
    usually coming to the knee.

    A container, similar to a vase.


    The Beaker Culture
    It is often where the ashes
    urn Some of the people who It was thought that They were named this after
    from someone who has died
    are stored. migrated to Britain Bronze was first brought the distinctive bell-shaped
    were known as the ‘Bell into Britain by the Bell pottery that was decorated
    The building material of Beaker People’. Beaker People. with impressions made from a
    wattle
    a house made from sticks comb or cord.
    and
    (wattle) and clay, straw or
    daub The pots were used for Intricate pottery would The Bell Beaker People also
    manure (daub).
    drinking from or to show someone’s wealth introduced different types
    To move from one country or smelt copper, store food and status. of weapons and jewellery
    migrated
    region to another. or to use as urns. into Britain.

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