Eli5 why did the Bronze Age happen before the Iron Age?

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I would have thought that with bronze being an alloy it would have been more difficult to work with than iron, so why was it the first to become widely used?

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this article is really amazing and explains a lot why copper, then bronze, then iron:

[https://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/def_en/kap_5/advanced/t5_1_4.html](https://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/def_en/kap_5/advanced/t5_1_4.html)

i got lost for days reading all the links

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