grumpy_cat@thelemmy.club to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · edit-22 个月前Where I live, I have to have this conversation way too often with people.thelemmy.clubimagemessage-square173linkfedilinkarrow-up1591arrow-down12
arrow-up1589arrow-down1imageWhere I live, I have to have this conversation way too often with people.thelemmy.clubgrumpy_cat@thelemmy.club to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · edit-22 个月前message-square173linkfedilink
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 个月前Might be possible with bronze, since some cannons were made of bronze
minus-squarepomegranatefern@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-22 个月前Interestingly enough, I just finished watching The Lost Metallurgy of the Ancient Americas video, and not only were some cannons made of bronze, but apparently the Conquistadors did actually have some Mesoamerican Natives make some artillery for them using native metallurgy techniques and the locally mined copper/bronze the Natives were already making.1 1 Copper alloyed with arsenic forms a sort of bronze, and copper-tin alloys were also used for the bronze best known nowadays.
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 个月前Wow, that’s a really interesting find! Even Spain at that time had not produced the metal domestically for centuries, relying on imports from central Europe. Ironic. I wouldn’t be surprised if more parts of their technological superiority also relied on imports
minus-squarelad@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 个月前Then they were in the bronze age, at least technically
Might be possible with bronze, since some cannons were made of bronze
Interestingly enough, I just finished watching The Lost Metallurgy of the Ancient Americas video, and not only were some cannons made of bronze, but apparently the Conquistadors did actually have some Mesoamerican Natives make some artillery for them using native metallurgy techniques and the locally mined copper/bronze the Natives were already making.1
1 Copper alloyed with arsenic forms a sort of bronze, and copper-tin alloys were also used for the bronze best known nowadays.
Wow, that’s a really interesting find!
Ironic. I wouldn’t be surprised if more parts of their technological superiority also relied on imports
Then they were in the bronze age, at least technically