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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 151438" data-attributes="member: 1879">Culture <> Technology.A given culture is not magically stuck at some level of technology. I'm pretty sure that they use steel these days in greece and egypt. If those cultures had survived as world powers until the iron age they would have become iron age powers. Heck, even if your party was the first group to bring iron weapons into an isolated bronze age greek culture they'd be fair on the way to developing iron weapons by the time the party left. Remember that a lot of the factors that made the Spanish conquistadors so successful in South America (Disease and local legends or social structure) are less of a factor when the local priests can cast cure disease, or commune with their gods to find out that Cortez is not in fact Quetzal Coatl. In fact most panthestic cultures that run into something new and useful will just tack whoever the local god of that thing is into their pantheon. And if your prayers to Vulcan for knowlege of how to forge steel get answered that technological gap can be closed very rapidly.-Andor</blockquote>