14 | What even was the Bronze Age?

What was the world really like 5,000 to 3,000 years ago, when Odysseus supposedly sailed back from Troy?YouTube link for this episode: https://youtu.be/_Gihp_OUye0Email: [email protected]: @RichardLikesHistory ⁠X: @skerkwagga1939Produced by Richard Marais(0:00) The Fertile Crescent and Egypt(3:30) Europe and 'Ancient Greece'(7:29) China(9:13) The Indus(12:38) Southern Africa: Earth's first iron smelters(14:16) South America and the 'quipu' system(17:52) Russia and the Siberian frontier(20:21) Australia(22:39) Pasifika(25:19) Southeast Asia and its "Peaceful Bronze Age"(27:19) North America: hunter-gatherer metropolis