Compared to forging steel, making bricks was much simpler, almost a case of just needing hands to do the job.
Civilizations that touched upon pottery technology generally learned how to fire bricks, and going a step further, they could unlock the production of glazes or glassware.
Contrary to what many might think, glass has a very long history.
Not counting the natural glass columns formed when lightning strikes sand in the desert, melting it into what's known as fulgurite or lightning lava—this type of glass, being full of impurities, looks dark and dull like charcoal, only cool to play with but seemingly good for nothing else—
the earliest history of humans making manmade glass can probably be traced back to Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece around BC; of course, it was Rome that eventually came to excel in glasswork.
