Iron was first processed into tools in Asia Minor by the Hittites. Iron ore, charcoal, and advanced technical skills were required to smelt iron. The Vedic people in India underwent a revolutionary change in agriculture by using iron weapons and tools to cut down trees, break stones, plow soil, hunt animals, and more. This led to increased trade and the use of punch-marked coins for exchange. Meanwhile, Greek and Roman civilizations developed during the Iron Age and made major contributions to philosophy, mathematics, theater, medicine, history, sculpture, geography, art, literature, and architecture. Indian society was stratified through the caste system, dividing people based on profession into Brahmins, Kshatriy

2. IRON AND MAN

3. • Iron is available in nature as
ore.Strength,easy availabil ity are the
specialities of iron.Advanced technical
skill is required to process this ore in to
iron.Iron ore was first processed in Asia
Minor by Hittites.

4. IRON ORE

5. Technology of Iron
• Iron ore + Charcoal = Iron Transformed
in to various iron weapons

6. Technology of Iron

7. Technology of Iron

8. Uses of Iron Weapons
• To cutdown trees and break big stones
• Plough the clay soil
• Make vehicles and machines
• Protect life from wild animals
• Hunting birds and animals
• Cutting fruits and food items

9. Iron age weapons

10. Picture of hunting tools

11. Iron machine in the iron age

12. By the use of iron weapons and
tools,the vedic people in Indian society
make a revolutionary change in
agriculture

13. Iron age peoples

14. Iron age people

15. • The vedic people were migrated to gangetic
plain.Agricultural was their main activity.

16. Agricultural activity of vedic people

17. The people of the gangetic plain
exchanged their surplus produce.This
lead to the rise of trade.

18. • At the end of the vedic age,coins were used
for exchange and trade.These coins are known
as punch marked coins.

19. Punch marked coins

20. Symbols seen in punched marked coins

21. Greek Civilization
• It was an important one in the ancient
western world,which is developed in iron age.

22. • The ancient Greeks made major contributions
in different fields of knowledge.

23. Socrates,Plato,Aristotle
Field- philosophy

24. Archimedes,Pythagoras,Euclid
Field-Mathematics

25. Aeschylus,Sophocles,Euripides
Field-Theatre

26. Hippocrates
Field-Medicine

27. Herodotus and Thucydides
Field-History

28. Phidias
Field-Sculpture

29. Eratosthenes
Field-Geography

30. Roman Civilization
• It was developed in iron age.The founders of
Rome were people who lived on the southern
bank of river Tiber in Italy.

31. • The Romans made great contributions in the
fields of art,literature and architecture.Virgil
and Ovid enriched ancient latin literature.

32. Romans built several roads,bridges and
aqueducts.

33. Inequality In Society
• In iron age, inequality was existed in Gangetic
plain based on their profession.This is caste
system.

34. Inequality in iron age

35. According to Chaturvarnya,people were divided
in to four varnas-
BRAHMINS,KSHATRIYAS,VAISYAS AND SUDRAS

36. Inequality based on income

37. BY,
RESHMA RAJ
SOCIAL SCIENCE
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