" People with names referencing this substance include the last Yuan emperor, Toghon Temür, and Tamerlane.
A legendary wall built by Alexander the Great from this resource gave its name to passes at Derbent and Samarkand. The Chinese may have imported technology from the Scythians to create a "sponge" version of this resource in a "bloomery." People with names referencing this substance include the last Yuan emperor, Toghon Temür, and Tamerlane. This was the alphabetically earlier good debated in "discourses" involving Huo Guang and Sang Hongyang. Emperor Wudi created a monopoly on (*) salt as well as this substance. An inscription praising Chandragupta II adorns a pillar made out of this resource in Delhi, which has resisted corrosion for over 1500 years. The Chinese were the first to produce this substance in its "cast" form. For 10 points, name this metal which used to be extracted from meteorites and names the "age" that preceded the Bronze Age.
A legendary wall built by Alexander the Great from this resource gave its name to passes at Derbent and Samarkand.
iron [or cast iron, wrought iron; Fe; ferrum]