The state of the art of technology for most of them was bronze, which is combining copper and tin, and you can make weapons and tools and jewelry with it. Now what's interesting about the Hittites is that they were one of the first to start to use iron. Iron required a little bit more technology. In order to smelt iron, you had to get the furnace to be even hotter. And the Hittites, we know, did make use of iron. Now they are also known as great charioteers. This is an image of what a Hittite chariot would look like.