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List of Bronze Age states
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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. This is a list of Bronze Age polities.
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Palaeolithic or Mesolithic hunter-gatherers
nomadic pastoralists
simple farming societies
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).
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West Asia
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Africa
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Americas
Europe
Asia
Eurasian Steppe and Central Asia
East Asia
South Asia
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See also
- Copper Age state societies
- List of Iron Age states (c. 1200–600 BC)
- List of Classical Age states (c. 600 BC–200 AD)
- List of former sovereign states
- List of ancient great powers
- List of largest empires
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