How could swords be made out of iron , when there was no machine at that time to do it in the year of 2000 BC.

Question

iron had to be dig out the ground and melt down and ect

Answer 1

Blacksmithing began with the Iron Age, when primitive man first began making tools from iron. The Iron Age began when some primitive person noticed that a certain type of rock yielded iron when heated by the coals of a very hot campfire. In short, we can say that blacksmithing, the art of crafting that crude metal into a useable implement, has been around for a long, long time. http://www.appaltree.net/aba/history.htm

Because iron is so hard to make, nobody used iron before about 1500 BC. Then the Hittites in West Asia learned how to use it. Tthey quickly saw that iron weapons were better than bronze ones, and so they decided to keep the secret of making it to themselves. The Hittites kept the secret for about 400 years, until about 1100 BC. When the Dark Ages came to West Asia, the Hittite empire fell apart and the secret of making iron got out to other people.

Answer 2

2000 BC was a tad bit early for sword-making with iron, but close enough in the Hittite examples (http://www.timelineindex.com/content/select/684/44,1573,684). Iron technology was a bit complicated compared to working with copper and its variant forms like bronzes or even brass. Still, you can go to places like Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri and watch blacksmithing work done. They show how roughly molded iron was then heated and beaten into a desired and usable form. Today, we call that a definite "low-tech" work, but in the early-second millennium BC period, ironwork was 'state of the art'.

Answer 3

These are all good answers. I'd just like to add an aside.

I don't know how someone in China discovered adding carbon to iron hardens it. Maybe someone fell into a crucible.

But it was discovered, and while they didn't know about carbon, they knew a corpse in the brew hardened the end product. Naturally, the result was that every time a batch of molten iron was ready to be poured, they found someone who needed sacrificing to the war God.

Answer 4

Someone invented the bellows, a way to inject air into the heating process, which increased the temperature enough to melt iron ore, after the Bronze age.

Answer 5

People did not have iron back then. Most weapons were made of Bronze. As for how they did it they mined the ore from the ground using forced/slave labor with pick axes and shovels. Then sent it of to a smithy who would smelt the ore and then fasion it into armor, weapons, and jewelry.

Answer 6

Aliens who came to Earth decided to try an experiment by teaching humans how to create iron just to see if we would be able to learn it.

Answer 7

the same way everything was made before machines replaced people with skills,by hand using tools of the blacksmithing trade.

Answer 8

heres the recipe to make swords, back then. first, w,t,f kinda question is that, shoot all you need is fire and a rock. there are rocks that hard,