Iron Working (Civ7)

Iron Working
Technology of the Antiquity Age
Introduced in Civilization VII
Technologies
Required	Military Training
Required	Military Training
Leads to	Future Tech
Leads to	Future Tech
Unlocks
Units	Horseman Phalanx

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 "Iron made this promise: 'By the tongs and the hammer, many trees I can injure, but I shall not kill the best of heroes.'"
– The Kalevala

Iron Working is an Antiquity Age technology in Civilization VII.

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Civilopedia entry

In the Finnish epic Kalevala, the immortal smith Ilmarinen strives to create a metal to aid humans in their efforts to cultivate and tame the land. He believes that adding a drop of honey will sweeten the final product, but he grabs a hornet by mistake, creating iron – a material capable of death as much as service. Iron emerged from trade route disruptions during the late Bronze Age. It was not as strong or as sharp as bronze, but it did not need to be smelted with other metals (bronze is composed of both tin and copper), so it required less complicated trade routes and could tie more people together in commerce, or war. This Iron Age classically extends from the widespread adoption of iron tools until the beginning of written history – from the 11th century BCE in the Near East until the reign of Ashoka in South Asia (in China, where writing preceded iron, or in Mesoamerica, where iron was not used, the term is irrelevant).

Steel (an alloy of iron and carbon) surpasses the hardness and durability of bronze, but this technology was only occasionally available, although skilled smiths could produce iron with a certain amount of steel as early as antiquity.

See also

• Iron Working in other games