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As I understand it, wrought iron weapons are typically less hard and more ductile than bronze weapons, and thus don't hold an edge as well; their advantage in the ancient world was because iron ore was much more common in the earth than copper and tin, and this came to a head with the collapse of trade networks in the late Bronze Age. I'm actually kind of fuzzy about when steel became standard issue vs iron, so some kind of timeline on that would make this easier.

I'm also under the impression that the Neo-Babylonians of the 6th Century B.C. were the last native Mesopotamian empire, eventually being conquered by the Persians, then the Macedonians, then the Partians, the Romans, the Sassanids, then the Arabs. Is there a way to keep Akkadian speaking Mesopotamian peoples on top in the Near East into the middle ages?
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