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This paper explores many causes as to the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age. Throughout the Eastern Mediterranean area in the first two centuries of the Iron Age, iron weapons appear alongside bronze weapons, with no evidence that iron provided any military advantage over bronze weapons. The question I look to answer is “Why does Iron replace Bronze?” Bronze Age is the time in the development of any human culture, before the introduction of iron, when most tools and weapons were made of bronze. Chronologically, the term is of strictly local value, for bronze came into use, and was again replaced by iron, at different times in different parts of the world. It generally succeeds a culture’s Copper Age. Bronze is a shiny gold color when new, which made it popular for objects such as jewelry. Bronze was used for weapons such as spearheads, swords, and knives. A plausible explanation for the Iron Age is a shortage of bronze. This theory argues that a bronze shortage gripped the eastern Mediterranean in the eleventh and tenth centuries BC. What caused the bronze shortage? Bronze is an alloy that is usually made up of 85-95% copper, with the other 5-15% made up of mainly tin or arsenic, thou