The subsequent Bronze Age civilizations of Greece and the Aegean Sea have given rise to the general term Aegean civilization.

Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations of Greece around the Aegean Sea.

The term Stone Age implies the inability to smelt any ore, the term Bronze Age implies the inability to smelt iron ore and the term Iron Age implies the ability to manufacture artifacts in any of the three types of hard material.

Originally the term " Bronze Age " meant that either copper or bronze was being used as the chief hard substance for the manufacture of tools and weapons.

Marija Gimbutas () ( Vilnius, January 23, 1921 – Los Angeles, United States February 2, 1994 ), was a Lithuanian-American archeologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of " Old Europe ", a term she introduced, and for her Kurgan hypothesis, the current most widely accepted of the Proto-Indo-European Urheimat hypotheses among scholars.

Before World War II, archaeologists sometimes applied the term " Minyans " differently, to indicate the very first wave of Proto-Greek speakers in the 2nd millennium BCE, among the early Bronze Age cultures sometimes identified with the beginning of Middle Helladic culture.

The Finnish term for a Bronze Age cairn grave ( consisting of a pile of rocks ) is still called a hiidenkiuas, Hiisi's pile of rocks.

2800 – 1800 BC, is the term for a widely scattered cultural phenomenon of prehistoric western Europe starting in the late Neolithic or Chalcolithic running into the early Bronze Age.

The term Kharachoi culture denotes the Early Bronze of Chechnya.

Instead, during the Bronze Age the term lulahi was in use in the Luwian language of the Hittites in Anatolia: in a Hittite cuneiform inscription priests and temple servants are directed to avoid conversing with lulahi and foreign merchants.

In Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe stone-built examples are known by the generic term of megalithic tombs.

When the term ' Wessex Culture ' was first coined, investigations into British prehistory were in their infancy and the unusually rich and well documented burials in the Wessex area loomed large in literature on the Bronze Age.

Entrance grave is a term given by archaeologists to a type of megalithic chamber tomb found in parts of Atlantic Europe, dating the early to middle Bronze Age.

Halstead summarizes a forum begun by Nakassis and others as " The term ' redistribution ' has been used with a range of meanings in the context of the Aegean Bronze Age and so obscures rather than illuminates the emergence and functioning of political economies.

Bronze race () is a term used by early 20th century Latin American writers of the indigenista and americanista schools to refer to the mestizo population that arose in America with the arrival of European ( particularly Spanish ) colonists and their intermingling with the New World's indigenous Native American peoples.

Oscar Montelius, who coined the term used for the period, divided it into six distinct sub-periods in his piece Om tidsbestämning inom bronsåldern med särskilt avseende på Skandinavien (" On Bronze Age dating with particular focus on Scandinavia ") published in 1885 which is still in wide use.

The Earth mysteries movement in Great Britain embraced the term " ritual landscapes " that was used in British archaeology starting in the 1980s, with regards to " sacred " locations apparently used for mainly ceremonial purposes in the Neolithic and early Bronze Age ; the concept has been both adopted and criticized in the field of academic archaeology.

Enclosed cremation cemetery is a term used by archaeologists to describe a type of cemetery found in north western Europe during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age.

Helladic is a modern archaeological term meant to identify a sequence of periods characterizing the culture of mainland ancient Greece during the Bronze Age.

: For other uses of the term, see Age of Bronze ( disambiguation ).

Archaeologists identify several different types including the butt beaker, the claw beaker and the rough-cast beaker, however when used alone the term usually refers to the pottery cups associated with the European Beaker culture of the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age.

The term Bronze Age was first used by comic book fandom and later the Overstreet Price Guide to refer to the more mature and modern comic books of the early 70s to the mid-80s.

While the Platinum Age saw the first use of the term " comic book " ( The Yellow Kid in McFadden's Flats ( 1897 )), the first known full-color comic ( The Blackberries ( 1901 )), and the first monthly comic book ( Comics Monthly ( 1922 )), it was not until the Golden Age that the archetype of the superhero would originate.

The literature of European archaeology, in general, avoids the use of ' chalcolithic ' ( the term ' Copper Age ' is preferred ), whereas Middle Eastern archaeologists regularly use it.

The term Edda ( Old Norse Edda, plural Eddur ) applies to the Old Norse Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, both of which were written down in Iceland during the 13th century in Icelandic, although they contain material from earlier traditional sources, reaching into the Viking Age.

Yet, when a distinction is made, Epipaleolithic is used for those cultures that were not much affected by the ending of the Ice Age ( like the Natufian and Khiamian cultures of Western Asia ) and the term Mesolithic is reserved for Western Europe where the extinction of the Megafauna had a great impact on the Paleolithic populations at the end of the Ice Age ( like European post-glacial cultures: Azilian, Sauveterrian, Tardenoisian, Maglemosian, etc.

Several centuries later, in late Dark Age Europe, the term " firearm " was used in Old English to denote the arm in which the match was held that was used to light the touch hole on the hand cannon.

The term " sacred feminine " was first coined in the 1970s, in New Age popularizations of the Hindu Shakti.

The Iron Age as an archaeological term indicates the condition as to civilization and culture of a people using iron as the material for their cutting tools and weapons.

The term " Iron Age " has low chronological value, because it didn't begin simultaneously across the entire world.

Although imperialist practices have existed for thousands of years, the term " Age of Imperialism " generally refers to the activities of nations such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States in the early 18th through the middle 20th centuries, e. g., the " The Great Game " in Persian lands, the " Scramble for Africa " and the " Open Door Policy " in China.

During the Islamic Golden Age, there was a logical debate among Islamic philosophers and jurists whether the term Qiyas refers to analogical reasoning, inductive reasoning or categorical syllogism.

The term " diatessaron " is from Middle English (" interval of a fourth ") by way of Latin, diatessarōn (" made of four "), and ultimately Greek, διὰ τεσσάρων ( dia tessarōn ) (" out of four "; i. e., διά, dia, " at intervals of " and tessarōn of wikt: τέσσαρες | τέσσαρες, tessares, " four ").

It is a matter for often heated debate whether this is a valid usage of the term, but ultimately it appears to be a semantic dispute.

In order to understand and ultimately predict job performance, it is important to be precise when defining the term.

The term Judaism derives from the Latin Iudaismus, derived from the Greek Ιουδαϊσμός Ioudaïsmos, and ultimately from the Hebrew יהודה, Yehudah, " Judah "; in Hebrew: י ַ ה ֲ דו ּ ת, Yahadut.

It may have been originally named the Kleinsche Fläche (" Klein surface ") and that this was incorrectly interpreted as Kleinsche Flasche (" Klein bottle "), which ultimately led to the adoption of this term in the German language as well.

The term is ultimately derived from Latin, and means " Arts of Mars ," where Mars is the Roman god of war.

The term bolide refers to either an extraterrestrial body that collides with the Earth, or to an exceptionally bright, fireball-like meteor regardless of whether it ultimately impacts the surface.

Edward Cave, who edited The Gentleman's Magazine under the pen name " Sylvanus Urban ," was the first to use the term " magazine ," on the analogy of a military storehouse of varied materiel, ultimately derived from the Arabic makhazin (" storehouses ") by way of the French language.

The term pharaoh ultimately was derived from a compound word represented as, written with the two biliteral hieroglyphs " house " and " column ".

The word " priest " is ultimately from Greek, via Latin presbyter, the term for " elder ", especially elders of Jewish or Christian communities in Late Antiquity.

The English term patriot is first attested in the Elizabethan era, via Middle French from Late Latin ( 6th century ) patriota " countryman ", ultimately from Greek πατριώτης ( patriōtēs ) " countryman ", from πατρίς, " fatherland ".

The term, which derives ultimately from the Latin recusare ( to refuse or make an objection ), was first used to refer to those who remained loyal to the Roman Catholic Church and did not attend Church of England services, with a 1593 statute determining the penalties against " Popish recusants ".

The word rime, derived from Old Frankish language * rīm, a Germanic term meaning " series, sequence " attested in Old English ( Old English rīm-" enumeration, series, numeral ") and Old High German rīm, ultimately cognate to Old Irish rím, Greek arithmos " number ".

Literally it means a thread or line that holds things together and is derived from the verbal root siv -, meaning to sew ( these words, including Latin suere and English to sew, all ultimately deriving from PIE * siH -/ syuH-' to sew '), as does the medical term " suture.

The other term, serpent, is from French, ultimately from Indo-European * serp-( to creep ), which also gave Greek érpo ( ερπω ) " I crawl ".

The term " Hesse " ultimately derives from a Germanic tribe called the Chatti, who settled in the region in the first century B. C.

According to Turkologists Peter Golden and András Róna-Tas, the term Turk is ultimately rooted in the East Iranian Saka language:

However, it is generally accepted that the term " Türk " is ultimately derived from the Old-Turkic migration-term " Türük " or " Törük ", which means " created ", " born ", or " strong ".

In 1956, when Eisenhower mulled not running for a second term, he suggested Dewey as his choice as successor, but party leaders made it plain that they would not entrust the nomination to Dewey yet again, and ultimately Eisenhower decided to run for re-election.

The names " passerines " and " Passeriformes " are derived from Passer domesticus, the scientific name of the eponymous species ( the House Sparrow ) and ultimately from the Latin term passer for Passer sparrows and similar small birds.

The English term creole comes from French créole, which is cognate with the Spanish term criollo and Portuguese crioulo, all descending from the verb criar (" to breed " or " to raise "), ultimately from Latin creare (" to produce, create ").

The term, the Wars of the Roses, refers to the informal heraldic badges of the two rival houses of Lancaster and York which had been contending for power, and ultimately for the throne, since the late 1450s.

The term ultimately comes from the Greek " κλῆρος "-klēros, " a lot ", " that which is assigned by lot " ( allotment ) or metaphorically, " inheritance ".