he Bronze Age occurred between the Stone and Steel Age. Copper Age, also known as the Chalcolithic Age is a very short period of time that lasted for only 1,000 years between the Stone and Bronze Age. The Bronze Age developed in different cultures in different millennia: in Greece, Turkey and Crete around 3000 BC, in China, Egypt, the Middle East, and Europe about a thousand years later, around 1900 BC.