World building in the Bronze Age: How did people live?

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  @HRZN-xj9um · 3 years ago

  The bronze age is probably where a physically based hard magic system first becomes viable. Any sooner and you'll likely advance into the bronze age immediately.

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• AR

  @Arnsteel634 · 2 years ago

  I’m researching for a homebrew D&D setting. Thank you for this video.

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• KI

  @kit888 · 3 years ago

  One interesting tidbit. Egyptians used rotary stone mortars to grind their grain. Stone dust mixed into their flour, so eating their bread wore their teeth down. Most of them, including the Pharoahs, suffered from bad teeth.

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• TH

  @TheodoraBloodrose · 2 months ago

  "In a time before bread" reminds of "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away."

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• DO

  @Donnie1781 · 2 months ago (edited)

  Counting in 12&apos;s came from counting the sections of your fingers, 3 on each finger, using your thumb tapping each segment. &nbsp;<br>And once you reached 12 you would hold up a finger on your other hand. &nbsp;<br>Then after you had all 5 fingers held up on that hand, you reached 60 and had to start again!

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• RO

  @ronniabati · 2 years ago

  Thank you for bringing the Bronze Age into world building 👏

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• RO

  @ronecotex · 3 years ago

  The one that I&apos;d like to add your chariots is have a little cage attached to them if you were a the fantasy equivalent of a deputy or something

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• DA

  @DamienZshadow · 3 years ago

  With the opening line in the epic of Gilgamesh and the way that we ask refer to things being the greatest things since sliced bread, we sure do have an obsession with labeling time periods off of bread related stages. I think my next story is going to have A time line based on different stages Of baking bread. Lol

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• NA

  @NathanielWinkelmann · 1 year ago

  Basically a gift to runequest pmayers everywhere

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• WA

  @walterhaider869 · 2 years ago

  This is what I&apos;ve been looking for, thank you.

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• JO

  @joshuayow4653 · 2 years ago (edited)

  The thing is with bread, grains can be gathered and stored long term, which means less people hunting and gathering, less people hunting and gathering means more people can craft bricks, clothing, tools, baskets, blankets, pots, ect.<br><br>Bread was fast food back in the day and it allowed civilization to build long term. <br><br>Especially during the winters.<br><br>I&apos;d make the argument it&apos;s the number one technology to jump from cave man to civilized man.

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• BL

  @bloodvue · 2 years ago

  Huh, I was just thinking Egypt used canals and the annual flood.<br><br> I wonder if they floated the stone to the pyramids.<br>Imagine how amazing it would be if they used stone weir locks to raise the stone.

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