In the Fall of 2010, we had many Alside window sets put in. When Spring came, we opened all but four of the windows 1/4 to 1/2 way. We never fully closed and locked the windows until late July/early August when the hurricane was due to come up the east coast.
Almost everybody in the Iron Age was involved in farm work and that goes for women and children, too. In order to prepare the land people used a special kind of plough, an ard, which was pulled by a couple of oxen. That was probably the men's part of the work. Very few people were actual artisans.
Iron Age Kingdom: Iron Smelting in Africa- Bonus Blog Post. The Iron Age of Africa is generally considered to have taken place between 200 AD and 1000 AD when iron smelting was a practice. In Africa, the Iron Age was not prefaced by the Bronze or Copper Age, instead, all of the metals were brought together. The advantages of Iron are obvious, easier to cut trees with and easier to shave stone. In the 2nd millenium BC, it is believed that Western Asians invented the process of iron smelting.