The Bronze Age is somewhere around 3000-1200BC, the time of the pyramids being built and the time of Gilgamesh.
Pre-Renaissance is around 400-1400AD(?); Dante's Inferno and the Black Plague I think. Robin Hood's era.
So, unless these "proto-Vulcans" haven't discovered iron and how to mix it with coal, then it's unlikely that they're Bronze Age people. *** I just noticed an iron chain in the room where "The Palmer" is first brought into, so that decides it right there. :)
Those are apples and oranges. Yes, as it happens, it's increasingly recognized that the Bronze Age was a surprisingly cosmopolitan, advanced, prosperous time - when Egyptian faience beads show up in British passage graves, you're talking some serious commerce going on.
But technology (metallurgy or lack thereof) and society (renaissance, dark ages, what have you) are two different things. The Five Nations in North America developed a pretty good rule-of-law civilization without developing metals at all - while European doctors at the time of the steel-using Crusades were a horror. (“This woman has tuberculosis! Let's remove her brain and rub salt on it to drive the devil out!”)
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Pre-Renaissance is around 400-1400AD(?); Dante's Inferno and the Black Plague I think. Robin Hood's era.
So, unless these "proto-Vulcans" haven't discovered iron and how to mix it with coal, then it's unlikely that they're Bronze Age people. *** I just noticed an iron chain in the room where "The Palmer" is first brought into, so that decides it right there. :)
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Those are apples and oranges. Yes, as it happens, it's increasingly recognized that the Bronze Age was a surprisingly cosmopolitan, advanced, prosperous time - when Egyptian faience beads show up in British passage graves, you're talking some serious commerce going on.
But technology (metallurgy or lack thereof) and society (renaissance, dark ages, what have you) are two different things. The Five Nations in North America developed a pretty good rule-of-law civilization without developing metals at all - while European doctors at the time of the steel-using Crusades were a horror. (“This woman has tuberculosis! Let's remove her brain and rub salt on it to drive the devil out!”)
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