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- - Most surviving bronze implements are tools or weapons, though some ritual artifacts survive. - - The date of the arrival of a Bronze Age varies from culture to culture. - - ==Near East Bronze Age== - The Bronze Age in the Near East is considered as beginning around 3300 BC with the increasing use of bronze and the rise of complex urban civilisation (to varying degrees and in varying forms) in the main cultural centres of the region, Egypt and Mesopotamia. Significant overlaps in the cultures of the region from the preceding Chalcolithic Period make the assignment of a more precise date impossible. Not unexpectedly, areas like the LevantThe Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in Southwest Asia south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, and in the east, the north Arabian Desert and Mesopotamia. The Levant does n, AnatoliaAnatolia ( Greek ανατολη anatole for "rising of the sun" or "East"; compare " Orient" and " Levant", by popular etymology Turkish Anadolu to ana "mother" and dolu "filled"), also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor and the Iranian Plateau entered the Bronze Age slightly later, and under the strong influence of the first innovators, but were nonetheless able to make the move into the Bronze Age in highly innovative ways that reflected their geographical circumstances. The Bronze Age of the Near East is divided into Early, Middle and Late phases, with Intermediate periods often being recognised between them. Historians and archaeologists of the more literate areas - Egypt and Mesopotamia - however, tend to periodise their respective cultures along political lines (dynasties and kingdoms). The end of the Bronze Age in the Near East is normally associated with the disturbances created by large population movements in the 12th century BC13th century BC 12th century BC 11th century BC other centuries) ( 1200s BC 1190s BC 1180s BC 1170s BC 1160s BC 1150s BC 1140s BC 1130s BC 1120s BC 1110s BC 1100s BC other decades) ( 3rd millennium BC 2nd millennium BC 1st millennium BC) Events 1200 BC An and the rise of new technologies and political formations, characterised as the start of the Iron Age. - - ==Central Asian Bronze Age== - A Bronze Age culture known as the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological ComplexThe Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (or BMAC pronounced BEE-mac) is a modern archaeologists' designation for a Bronze Age culture of the early second millennium BCE, located in present day northern Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. Its sites were disc thrived around 2000 BC21st century BC 20th century BC 19th century BC other centuries) ( 3rd millennium BC 2nd millennium BC 1st millennium BC) Events 2064 1986 BC Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt 1991 BC Egypt: End of Eleventh Dynasty, start of Twelfth Dynasty 1932 BC Amorite conqu in areas around today's northern AfghanistanAfghanistan ( Dari/ Pashtu: Afgnistn is a country in Central Asia. It is bordered by Iran in the west, Pakistan in the south and east, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the easternmost part of the country. It is among the, Turkmenistan, and eastern Iran. - - ==East Asian Bronze Age== - The Shang Dynasty of early China used bronze vessels for rituals as well as farming implements. - (text is needed)