Iron: The New Technology

             The discovery of iron in West Africa changed them for acouple reasons. They found it by heating rocks in to a metal. Iron help develope more powerful weapons. Normally people used wood to make the tips of the weapons, and that made it break or have less power when there was a war going on. The same thing happened to farming tools. When iron came people would use it to make arrow points. This made them a little more deadly. For farming tools, the hoe was created and let farmers get their crops reasy to be harvest really by clearing out larger chunks of land. the hoe is a wooden stick with iron on the end.