Honestly, the Turin test is probably going to be beat in the next five years.

Polluted and rules by the rich. Even more than it is now.

I mean, if the Western empire lasted as long as the Byzantines they'd probably bring about some sort of Industrial Revolution in the Middle Ages.

We were also able to legislate our way out of the CFC and leaded gasoline crises. Though with the oil industry is gonna be much more difficult. It's not only a matter of technology. And even after we manage to solve that, plastic's probably going to be the next big problem.

You can be pretty sure it never reached the levels we have today. It's a matter of population.

Believe me, you should feel bad. The worst thing is that it's not even just the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. There's acid rain, plastic pollution, agrotoxics and a probably a hundred other negative ways in which our lifestyle impacts the environment that we haven't even discovered yet.

But iron swords were already considerably more difficult to make than bronze swords, weren't they? Because of the whole thing that bronze can be molded and iron needs to be forged. Not to mention the higher melting point of iron ore.

Cool, thanks. I kinda feel a little bit ashamed of making so many assumptions now hehe

I know, but swords are rather fragile and demand a lot of maintenance. Using it to chop wood would be a terrible idea. And I know metal was reused, but in that time, it was much more valuable than it is today.

Oh yeah. You can also correlate the concentration of lead in the atmosphere to the rise of the greek and roman empires because the melting of iron ore releases trace amounts of lead to the atmosphere. It's really cool. Thanks for the answer.

Why is it not a fact?

Interesting, thanks for the answer.