Timeline for Can the Aztec Empire learn and reuse Conquistador technology?
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| Nov 19, 2018 at 12:34 | comment | added | Ash | Depends what you want to smelt and how, pottery kilns can and do produce enough heat for bloomery iron and more than enough for lower temperature processes like copper and lead smelting. Blast furnaces or any other large-scale process I quite agree won't happen, not soon anyway, but small charcoal fired smelters aren't too hard to build, not the most efficient technology of the age, but workable. | |
| Nov 19, 2018 at 12:28 | comment | added | mg30rg | @Ash Ok, I must have skipped that part. Althought I strongly doubt that any conquistador was such a renaissance-man to be able to create a usable smelthery with late stone- and early bronze age tools. But again, I might be wrong. | |
| Nov 19, 2018 at 12:24 | comment | added | Ash | Given that the "survivors are taken prisoner" we're not just talking about reverse engineering. | |
| Nov 19, 2018 at 12:21 | comment | added | mg30rg | @Ash We are talking about reverse engineering here. You can only reverse-engineer stuff you see working. You can't reverse engineer steel manufacturing without seeing a steel smelter working. The end product simply doesn't say anything about the process. | |
| Nov 19, 2018 at 12:13 | comment | added | Ash | They were in fact explorers looking for any resources that would compensate the royal family for their investment in the voyage. What particular skill sets they had along I don't know but a naturalist that can tell you you're holding silver ore can also point out iron ore, coal seams etc... and make saltpetre, probably gunpowder too. | |
| Nov 19, 2018 at 10:10 | history | answered | mg30rg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |