Bronze Age
Whenever someone talks about the Bronze Age somewhere, I cannot but marvel about my own misconception. I think that I am not alone in this: While there can’t be doubt over some of the accomplishments in metallurgy and culture in general, it also seems certain that folk lived a fairly primitive live back in the Bronze Age. It’s simply a very long time ago.
Or is it?
I must remind myself just how recent this actually is: the Bronze Age happened in Europe between 2300 and 600 years B.C.
No wonder mankind hasn’t really progressed much since, given that it took 250 million years or so to evolve since the dinosaurs, let alone the way from a microbe to a dinosaur, or from nothing to a microbe. The universe has a calculated age of 13.73 ± 0.12 billion years. That’s a long time longer than those short four thousand years since the Bronze Age.
By these standards, things will get interesting again in approximately 10 million years at the earliest. Wake me when we are there.
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