List of Bronze Age states

The Bronze Age (c. 3300–1200 BC) marks the emergence of the first complex state societies, and by the Middle Bronze Age (mid-3rd millennium BC) the first empires.

By the end of the Bronze Age, complex state societies were mostly limited to the Fertile Crescent and to China, while Bronze Age tribal chiefdoms with less complex forms of administration were found throughout Bronze Age Europe and Central Asia, in the northern Indian subcontinent, and in parts of Mesoamerica and the Andes (although these latter societies were not in the Bronze Age cultural stage).

Bronze Age
↑ Chalcolithic
Africa, Near East ( c. 3300 –1200 BC) Egypt , Anatolia , Caucasus , Elam , Levant , Mesopotamia , Sistan , Canaan Late Bronze Age collapse
East Asia (c. 3100–300 BC) Erlitou , Erligang , Gojoseon , Jomon , Majiayao , Mumun , Qijia , Siwa , Wucheng , Xindian , Yueshi , Xia dynasty , Shang dynasty , Sanxingdui , Zhou dynasty
Eurasia and Siberia (c. 2700–700 BC) Poltavka culture , Abashevo culture , Sintashta culture , Andronovo culture , Mezhovskaya culture , Cherkaskul culture
Europe (c. 3200–900 BC) Aegean ( Cycladic , Minoan , Mycenaean ), Caucasus , Catacomb culture , Srubnaya culture , Bell Beaker culture , Apennine culture , Terramare culture , Únětice culture , Tumulus culture , Urnfield culture , Proto-Villanovan culture , Hallstatt culture , Canegrate culture , Golasecca culture , Argaric culture , Atlantic Bronze Age , Bronze Age Britain , Nordic Bronze Age
Indian subcontinent (c. 3300–1200 BC) Indus Valley Civilisation , Bronze Age India , Ochre Coloured Pottery , Cemetery H
Topics Arsenical bronze , writing , literature , Sword , Chariot
↓ Iron Age
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