(Pic: Wikipedia) " title="STEEL SECRET: How medieval blacksmiths overcame the material's brittleness is still a mystery. (Pic: Wikipedia) " border="0" width="70" height="50" align="left" hspace="5"/The steel of the curved sabres used by Muslims against Christian knights in the crusades came from India.

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