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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6335423" data-attributes="member: 177">Other than the fact that the Mongols and Vikings both had the ability to work iron/steel, you mean?  Those fighting barbarians will take slaves, and some of those slaves will know how to work iron, and so the orcs will then have the technology. It is only if the orcish lands lack the resources (fuel and ore) that the orcs wouldn't be able to use it themselves.  And sure as heck they'd *want* steel weapons, given the limitations of bronze and stone.Broadly speaking, once one culture develops a technology, there are very few reasons for neighbors to not also get that technology.  Taking our cues from our own history, one has to jump through hoops to plausibly limit the dissemination of technology or information in the long run.</blockquote>