Questions tagged [bronze-age]
For questions about Bronze Age (approx. 4,000B.C.–1,000B.C.) societies and technologies.
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What would be the most lethal melee weapon for trunks creature on land?
Imagine a race of intelligent humanoid beings standing almost 2m tall with 2 trunks instead of arms for handling and gripping objects, these trunk-like arms are similar to the elephant's except they ...
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What is the realistic approach for a person from modern age to build a modern weapon factory in the Bronze Age?
I often read a light novel that tells a story about a person who is transferred from their high tech modern society Earth to a fantasy land. These persons often have some expertise in modern science ...
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Could Bronze-Age Nomads Effectively Utilize Chariots for Warfare?
Horses were first domesticated on the steppes around 3500 BC, but the horse would not be ridden directly into battle for at least two more millennia. Instead chariots ruled the battlefields of the ...
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Could a Greater Relative Abundance of Tin Extend a Bronze Age?
Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin, and copper is a significantly more abundant metal in the Earth’s Crust, at about 70 PPM compared to tin at 2 PPM.
Because tin was the limiting factor in bronze ...
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Ancient 3D Printing
Worldbuilding Stack Exchange. I ask for your aid.
In my project, an Bronze-age alien civilization living near the coast has discovered a mollusk that can secrete ooze that later hardens into nacre, ...
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How Could People Utilize a Hypereutrophic Sea?
In a previous post I asked about the feasibility of connecting the ocean to a dried sea bed with hand tools and it was pointed out how environmentally disastrous this would be.
So the bronze age ...
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How long would it take to dig a 10 km canal with Bronze Age technology?
There’s a a decent sized kingdom that is situated between the ocean and a gigantic dried out seabed. The Priest-King and his lackeys want to flood the useless desert because who wouldn’t want more ...
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Worthy bipedal challenger for dominant species of large frogs possessing medieval technology [closed]
I'm looking for a bit of inspiration to help me with a bit of writer's block I've got going on at the moment.
In my novel, "A Tale of Galaxies", every being is bipedal due to various peculiarities of ...
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Getting fresh water in the middle of hypersaline lake in the Bronze Age
An ancient kingdom covers a several rivers in a desert basin all converging on a central, hypersaline, lake. Because of its central location, and the importance of the salt, the lake has important ...
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Bronze Age Underwater Civilization
I was thinking of an alternate history, in a part of a civilization, living along the Eastern Mediterranean, during the Bronze Age moves to the sea floor to found an underwater civilization. They ...
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Low-gravity Bronze Age fortifications
I’m designing a human Bronze Age civilization on a world with only ⅓ of Earth’s gravity. This reduced gravity will allow humans to jump much higher than they could on Earth. It will also allow humans ...
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How do you conduct xenoanthropology after first contact?
In the very near future, humans (somehow) travel to a distant planet - and discover aliens who turn out to be uncannily like us. Their appearance is, to put it bluntly, freakish, but they are humanoid ...
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Ancient Egypt - Primitive Blockchain Technology
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The goal is to implement a bronze age version of blockchain in ancient Egypt to introduce a layer of security for the royal tombs.
Tomb raiding was rampant, and at times even the legitimate ...
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How would lower gravity influence Bronze Age projectile weaponry?
How would lower gravity, let’s say around ½ of Earth’s, change the efficacy of different Bronze Age projectile weapons? How would the effective range, accuracy, and penetrating power of bows, javelins,...
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How would a Bronze Age tribe arm themselves vs. dinosaurs?
In this world, a Bronze Age tribe hunts and is hunted by multiple species of large dinosaur. What bronze age weaponry would be utilized by these people for the purposes of combating these beasts, ...
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Effects of Homeopathy on technology in the Bronze Age
What would be the most significant impacts on bronze-age technology if the basic principles behind homeopathy worked?
Let's say, that during the bronze age, some crafty philosopher discovered, that ...
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Bronze age Aztecs?
We see from The Zande People that a culture can remain in a tribal mentality yet have steel weaponry. We also see that their weaponry evolved after having access to metals.
I am wondering how ...
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Building and powering a computer in a bronze age world
A character needs to build a computer out of raw materials in a bronze age.
He has a nano scale factory, so manufacturing chips and such from silicon is possible, but I'm not sure of the best way to ...
