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- Iron Age
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Iron Age
When civilizations mainly used steel and iron to fashion their tools and weapons. The iron age follows the bronze age and is the last of the three prehistoric periods.
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During the Iron age the best instruments were made of steel, which was hard to produce. Most items were forged from wrought iron, which although not as strong as bronze, is plentiful and easy to work with. In historical strategies, generally the Iron age is when swordsmen and legions are available for construction, which are generally units that are biased towards attack as opposed to defence. Most often the Iron age is brought with the discovery of Iron Working and will last until the invention of Gun Powder.