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Have you ever thought about where does the iron comes from? Do you know who invented iron anyway? And why?

Iron is a metal that looks very common but needs a lot of skills to create it. It has a very long history in all countries around the world which began around 1200 B.C. Iron was starting invented form the collapse of the Bronze-Age civilisation of Mycenae. 

It has played important roles in both agriculture and military. During this era, Greek were busy to move out from their original settlements and settled a new place for them. Therefore, there was not much history about iron era in the books. 

The old Greek used iron products to build a trade relationship with people that came from other countries. Also, Greek Iron-Age was defined by art and agriculture. A case in point, pottery is one of the famous art history in Greece.

Back to iron investment, Greek used iron to create weapons. For instance, swords and knifes are the popular ones. Sword is a powerful weapon in the past and it was stronger than any of the metal products. The blade of the sword can be either straight or curved, they depend on different eras and countries. 

In the Greek Iron-Age, there were two types of swords: Thrusting Swords and Slashing Swords. The Thrusting Swords were straight with a sharp tip and the Slashing Swords were curved with cut edge on both sides of the blade. In the Greek history, people used swords for fighting against the enemies. The ancient Greeks were looking for a hard material to make better weapons (swords) so they could win wars. Because of that, the Greek took a great concern about the quality of the materials of the weapons. 

They finally found a material that was hard to break and useful. That is the history of iron in Greece.

Resource: https://study.com/academy/lesson/greek-iron-age-art-architecture.html