Q 01/05

Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper together with which other metal?

A) Zinc

B) Tin

C) Lead

D) Iron

Answer · why

B) Tin

Tin. Around a tenth of the mix is enough to make copper far harder, but tin ore is scarce, so the mines of Cornwall ended up supplying bronze-smiths a...

Q 02/05

In the three-age system, the Bronze Age sits between which two other ages?

A) Iron and Classical

B) Copper and Steel

C) Ice and Iron

D) Stone and Iron

Answer · why

D) Stone and Iron

Stone and Iron. The ages are stages rather than fixed dates: Britain's Bronze Age began only around 2000 BC, about a thousand years after the Old Worl...

Q 03/05

Which Danish curator developed the three-age system while arranging a Copenhagen museum's antiquities?

A) Christian Jürgensen Thomsen

B) Sir John Lubbock

C) Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae

D) Oscar Montelius

Answer · why

A) Christian Jürgensen Thomsen

Christian Jürgensen Thomsen. He dated objects by noting which kinds were found buried together, which gave prehistory its first evidence-based order.

Q 04/05

By roughly what date had the Bronze Age begun across much of the Old World?

A) 3000 BC

B) 6000 BC

C) 1500 BC

D) 500 BC

Answer · why

A) 3000 BC

Different regions crossed the threshold at different times, so each has its own chronology.

Q 05/05

Which weapon was a Bronze Age invention, unknown to earlier hunters and warriors?

A) The spear

B) The bow

C) The sword

D) The sling

Answer · why

C) The sword

The sword. It grew out of the dagger as smiths learned to cast ever longer blades in copper and bronze, and it stayed the leading hand weapon for thou...