Long prior to this time, iron weapons were not very common because they could not make furnaces hot enough. But by the time of the Babylonians (and even earlier Assyrians) they could make furnaces that could melt and forge iron.
Muda mrefu kabla ya wakati huu, zana za chuma hazikutumika sana kwa sababu hazikuweza kuyafanya matanuri yaliyokuwa na uwezo wa kuyeyusha kufua chuma.