Of course, there were no Mongols, because the wild Mongols in the wild steppes could not find either swamp ore or melt the forge with the poop of horses, this is obvious to anyone except the official scientists. But what, in fact, is what they say, not ignoramuses, but real scientists? Yes, long before the Mongols melted steel in the Mongolian steppes, tea is not poor Japan, where the Stone Age reigned until the 8th century AD. Mongolia is rich in forests and ores in the north, including iron and uranium, Mongolia did not isolate itself from the richest Siberia with its forests, ores and blacksmiths, from China, which filled everyone with steel weapons, from where the samurai took their direct tsurugi (swords to katanas and even tachi), if not from China and Korea? A herd of horses is rich, is it a problem to change a pair of horses to a saber or a sword?
In order not to be unfounded, let us turn to the research of the Institute of History and Archeology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences (surprisingly, yes, the wild Mongols have this!) And the Japanese University of Ehime. So when did they begin to melt iron in the Mongolian steppes according to archaeological data? In central Mongolia, smelting furnaces date back to the 2nd century AD! Of course, these are not the Mongols themselves, but the Xiongnu or as the Chinese Hunnu called them. They, like the Mongols much later, created the Hunnish state, and it was from them that the Chinese built the Great Wall of China.
Not only did the Xiongnu have developed metallurgy in the Mongolian steppes, both bronze and steel, but also the design of their furnaces differed from the Chinese, that is, their metallurgy was their own. And then the Xiongnu lumps somehow drove a couple of peoples from the steppes and they demolished the Roman Empire. And in general: why are the Mongolian steppes considered a backwater? This is one of the three origins of modern civilization at that time. And what about Mongolian own metallurgy?