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The Muslims started using Damascus steel in the ninth century.

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Damascus steel is used to make some of the strongest knives and daggers.

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They had developed relations with India who had the steel and were able to trade for it and forge it into curved scimitars.

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The metal weapons were sharper and more flexible and made it easier to fight Europeans who didn’t have this tech.

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Why was this innovation important at the time?

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Why was this innovation important at the time?

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It was important because it gave them the upper hand on the Europeans.

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