History of Weapons - From Bronze to Iron

 Among the weapons used by mankind, the first was a stone. From Paleolithic to Neolithic, advanced stone civilization using black stones appeared, but at this time, stones were too heavy and hard to find, so weapons hanging from short dagger or short-edged spears or sacks became mainstream. (Chinese gwat, sickle, and axe were distributed) The killing power of these weapons was very low. The first time mankind used metal for weapons was in Mesopotamia around 4000 B.C. The metal used at this time was copper. Copper, which is easier to process than stoneware, must have been a revolutionary discovery at the time, but in terms of practicality, the hardness of copper swords was no better than that of stoneware. However, due to the nature of the metal, it was possible to make elaborate decorations and sharp blades, so it was used mainly by a small number of nobles and royal families, but it was not widely distributed due to its rarity. At the end of the Neolithic period, the Bronze Age was invented around 2500 B.C. This bronze flag is an object that increased hardness by mixing tin with copper, and it was from that time that the strength was incomparable to the existing bronze or stone tools, and the days when there were only short daggers began to get longer. Around 1200 B.C., bronze armor was manufactured and the length of the sword increased to 50-100cm. In China, the hardness of the part of the sword was different, and the blade was hard, the knife was soft, and even 140cm long bronze sword was too long to be pulled out. However, in the West, the emergence of so-called "sea peoples" such as Akeans, Pericitans, and Prigians, which appeared around 1200 BC, blocked imports of tin from Asia, and the alternative they came up with was iron. In fact, it was faster than the Bronze Age that mankind began to encounter iron. It was also a metal ball that fell from space, that is, Uncheol, and the first time I encountered Uncheol was around 3000 B.C. during the Old Kingdom of Egypt, so it was more than 500 years earlier than the Bronze Age. They also worshipped Uncheol, calling it "black copper from heaven." What is noteworthy is the intensity of Uncheol, and in the epic poem of Buk-gu's hero, if it is a famous sword, there are many swords made of Uncheol, and swords made of this Uncheol are thought to have considerable intensity in their own way. This meteorite is characterized by a large amount of nickel. However, this meteorite began in the famous Hittite Empire, where iron and humans artificially collect ore from the sky to make iron. Although iron was used to make weapons or give them as gifts to foreign countries as a manufacturing method developed by a tribe in Armenia in Hittite was transferred to the empire, iron was treated like gold and silver at that time (so was aluminum in the early days). With the fall of this Hittite Empire, iron-making methods spread throughout Asia and the coast of the Aegean Sea.

In other words, medieval civilizations in Latin America were slaughtered by a small number of Spanish armed groups armed with gunpowder weapons and iron weapons because the development of weapons stopped in the Bronze Age.