Cattle were important to people of many different cultures earlier than that. A good answer would be food and dairy products.
Iron Age chaps were pretty efficient farmers who grew vegetables and cereals in enclosed fields. They used cattle to pull a plow then finished the crop by hand. They also had a lot of meat in their diet. Cattle similar to today's Highland cattle were widespread as was sheep, goats and pigs.
iron tools enabled farmers to grow more food
It is the age of where men sttarted using iron in their weapons, ex: A dagger in Egypt.
Railroads allowed cattle farmers to sell more cattle because they could transport them faster and farther than ever before. The trains could also take cattle to places where it was not possible to move them along trails. The Gilded Age was the period of time from the 1870s to 1900.
Iron Age is the period marked by the use of iron implements, tools, and weapons. Archeologists consider the Iron Age the period that immediately follows the Bronze Age.
Essential in growth of the Industdrial age
mostly they would have been farmers ,but some people would be called upon to fight for their master.
mostly they would have been farmers ,but some people would be called upon to fight for their master.
Yes
The reason it is called the Iron Age is because they made weapons and tools from iron. Often the farm tools were used in war because the foot soldiers were the farmers and that is what they had. Wheels were also invented in this time and chariots used in fighting. The bow and arrow was used as well.
Iron is important to us because steel, which is made from iron, is the basis of most of the structures we build and of the vehicles we ride in on the ground.
After the Iron Age was the Middle Ages