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Ironworking is an advance in Civilization: Call to Power.

Summary[]

Iron Working, the second Defensive War Advance, announces the age of cheap, universal weaponry. With the Legion, Civilizations gain a flexible, professional soldier capable of invading and occupying any ancient territory.

Great Library entry[]

By 500 BC, ironworking had become widespread in the Mediterranean region. Iron was much more plentiful than tin or copper and so greatly reduced the cost of swords and armor. Also, when well made, iron weapons proved superior to bronze.

See also[]

Civilization: Call to Power Advances
Ancient Age Agriculture Alchemy Astronomy Bronzeworking Bureaucracy Domestication Engineering Geometry Hullmaking Ironworking Jurisprudence Mining Monarchy Philosophy Religion Shipbuilding Stirrup Stoneworking Theocracy Tool-Making Trade Writing
Renaissance Age Age of Reason Agricultural Revolution Banking Cannon-Making Cavalry Tactics Classical Education Democracy Economics Gunpowder Industrial Revolution Machine Tools Mechanical Clock Medicine Nationalism Ocean-Faring Optics Perspective Physics Printing Press Republic
Modern Age Aerodynamics Chemistry Communism Computer Conservation Corporation Electricity Electrification Explosives Fascism Genetics Global Defense Globenet Jet Propulsion Mass Media Mass Production Oil Refining Pharmaceuticals Quantum Physics Railroad Rocketry Space Flight Steel Tank Warfare
Genetic Age AI Surveillance Advanced Composites Arcologies Corporate Republic Cryonics Ecotopia Fuel Cells Fusion Genetic Tailoring Human Cloning Nano-Assembly Neural Interface Robotics Sea Colonies Smart Materials Space Colonies Superconductor Technocracy Unified Physics
Diamond Age Alien Archaeology Asteroid Mining Cloaking Digital Encryption Eden Project Gaia Theory Life Extension Mind Control Subneural Ad Ultra-Pressure Machinery Virtual Democracy Wormholes Zero-G Industry
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