Apperantly the Roman Empire was a Higher Civilisation. As a matter of fact, their slave empire system never made it to Iron Age. They got stuck in Greek Brass, a metall mix of copper and zinc.
Even so having Iron Ore araound they were not able to biuld the required high temperature ovens to create iron tools.
Their swords where not silver, but shiny golden as Brass is, a colour comperable to the one of Krügerrand Gold Coins. They were extremly sharp, rather easy to be sharpend, but also not that solid, broke rather easily and needed after some time exchange when constantly sharpened.
Those people by the Romans called Germanics were the first that managed to cook iron and create tools from it. The Iron Smith was born.
There is little research around to keep the myth of the Barbarian alive, and hardly anyone knows about workshops like that deep in our woods that existed for unkown years, but for sure since the mid ages after Rome was beaten and the slaves were liberated.
The Vikings, possibly before they were called Vikings, had two important inventions. Steel and wood bending. In a sauna wood can be made soft to be bended without breaking. There is a chance Newtons apple's grand grand dad was a naked ass a few centimeter deeper than before the steam took over the room. They also managed to create better isolated ovens to cook in higher temperatures steel from iron.
Then they scaled up to the most solid boats since than being able to sail through storms using steel nails and one piece wood constructions and create more return on their fields by steel plows being able to digg deeper into the soil and going for export with what they had too much for their own. Their swords were solid, but not that sharp and that is when the battle axe was devolped. In opposite to the history books, that also declare a slave nation to a higher coltoure, the first Vikings were tradesmen and farmers and no plundering thieves.
To create good swords from nordic tecnolgy steel, it needed bending of steel and mixing the hard solid steel with softer steel, to be able to create a sharp edge yet maintaining the solidness, against the plundering theves of all kind.
Dalmast Steel was born. Dalmast Steel is the first main parallel development in human history, because also the Asiens bended steel for the very same reason.
To do that, it needs a hammer and time. The best swords, made for the best knights, needed about a year of constant hammering in red shining heat and therefore hammer workshops were created. Lazyiness can be turned into efficiency...
The only once who could bring that knowlege into our woods east of the Rhine, if we not ourselfes like the Asians figured it out, was Vikings with their river ready ships and Irish Travelling Monks.
St. Killian has a Sheppard stick and a Sword.
He was not murdered.
And the Book is a copy of the Book of Kells,
the first mass produced Bible
about a Man so pure and good he must have been the son of God
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