Question

Human life changed when it progressed from the stone age to the bronze age. Identify any four factors responsible for it and explain how they helped to improve the life of the people

Answer 1

The factors are:
Life-style.  Stone-Age people were nomads. They moved from one place to another and they did not practice any particular profession.
Bronze-Age people are the ones who lived around 1700 BCE. They are settlers.  They selected places and profession for their living.  Some became farmers, some tailors and some miners.  

Hunting style: Stone-Age people used tools made of stone and bone to kill animals, whereas, Bronze Age people learnt how to make bronze tools.  They learnt that 10% of tin and 90% of copper would give them bronze so, they started using bronze for making their hunting tools.  

Diet: Stone-Age people used to hunt and eat then and there.  There will not be any formal way of cooking.  Whereas, the Bronze-Age people learnt the art of cooking and cooked the food which was hunted or harvested.

Profession: There was no particular profession for Stone-Age people.  Their main work was to find sufficient food for their group.  But, from the paintings on the walls of the cave, we know that they were good painters. 

Bronze Age people chose their profession.  As there were miners, the climatic condition made the others to realize that a covering is necessary to work in mines; so, some took the profession of tailoring.  As they had settled in a place, farming played a major role in the development.