Why did the Bronze age precede the Iron age? (and what came after the iron age?)

Question

if any of you find a timetable listing the various 'ages' please post!

thanks!

Answer 1

Because Bronze was used in tools and making of things prior to iron. The Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age are just three classifications of prehistory, that is before history was really noted by people. After that, people started recording things.

I'm sure you can search for a time table yourself.  

Answer 2

Because copper, and then bronze (copper with tin) cold be smelted and cast in a lower temperature forge than iron, which required further innovation.

This is where the literal idea of cutting-edge technology developed.

The higher technology, turned into weapons, dominated or eliminated societies which could not match it. Bronze out-did stone...

After iron, steel, and then the cutting-edge steps in weaponry became metaphorical: explosives, firearms, and mass production through industrialisation.

The various ages were different in different geographical areas.

The Spanish brought steel and some fireams to South America, against nations that hadn't developed bronze.

Hilaire Belloc wrote on European colonial forces in Africa:

"In the end, we have got

The Maxim gun, and they have not."

Even at the defeat and slaughter of the British at Isandhlwana, the casualties suffered by the attacking Zulus, charging against breech loading rifles, were simply disastrous.