MMW 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Iron Ore

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: David Jordan

Document Summary

The earliest metal made object is a bead: 9500 bc. 2800 bc: evidence of teqniques for working metals. Iron rarely worked because it required lots of heat to melt/work. Africa has lots of hardwood and became a center for iron later. Iron became more common after the invention of charcoal and bellows. Ability to get hotter fires was critical to metalworking. Earliest know iron object in chin was a calderon. Ancient china bronze items had were highly decorated. Iron rusts = less likely to be preserved than copper and bronze. Increase in warfare around the time of iron. Early bronze and copper weapons were decorated and used for nobels. With the intoduction of iron agrivulture also boomed. Art of war: war is stupid if there is a cheaper way to do it. A bad way to do it is to let the king lead the war. Sun was tested to turn the kings concubines into a army.