Comment Approved: I doubt this is disinformation. To be clear, most human encampments had fire before Christ. Iron was actually very capable of being smelted even during the bronze age, but the material for the metal, methods of accessing the metal, refining the metal, and knowledge of the metal was so rare that it simply wasn't used. We do have accounts of European civilizations smelting some iron in the Bronze age, so it's not totally impossible that some African civilizations managed to interact with the metal, even if it wasn't used for architecture or weapons.
Comment Reported for: Rule 12 - Falsehoods
Comment Approved: I doubt this is disinformation. To be clear, most human encampments had fire before Christ. Iron was actually very capable of being smelted even during the bronze age, but the material for the metal, methods of accessing the metal, refining the metal, and knowledge of the metal was so rare that it simply wasn't used. We do have accounts of European civilizations smelting some iron in the Bronze age, so it's not totally impossible that some African civilizations managed to interact with the metal, even if it wasn't used for architecture or weapons.