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05-14-2005, 10:34 PM
Quote:Iron must give an edge over bronze or copper as the Doreans and Sea Peoples demonstrated.
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The only "edge" is that iron was cheap and more readily available. Tylecote has some tables comparing the hardness of copper alloys and iron/steel. You need quench-hardened steel to produce weapons and armour that is superior to properly cast, work-hardened bronze. Steel doesn't seem to have been used by any culture during the time in question.

Why do you think that the Sea Peoples and Dorians had iron and not everybody else?
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