Iron Age

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Iron Age Period succeeding the Bronze Age, dating from about 1100 bc in the Near East, later in w Europe. During this period people learned to smelt iron, although the Hittites had probably developed the first significant iron industry in Armenia soon after 2000 bc.

Iron Age

views updated May 21 2018

I·ron Age 1. a period that followed the Bronze Age, when weapons and tools came to be made of iron.2. (in Greek and Roman mythology) the last and worst age of the world, a time of wickedness and oppression.