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Oh, dear Lord, this little misconception again. Near Harad is not an "empire". Tolkien never mentioned it to be anything near it, and there isn't even a single aspect of any of the books that even suggest anything more than a feuding, nomadic existance for the tribes of the South. Legoarmy505 is indeed correct about their weapons; very few Haradrim had iron, and they would have been Warlords or chiefs. Bronze, bone, and bamboo were basically the norm for the soldiery. It was only at the close of the Second Age, around the time of the Last Alliance, that Sauron stepped in and furnished them with Iron weapons. There is little doubt these would've been lost quickly after the Alliance's victory. I'm sorry, but there is absolutely no true canonical, or even canon-friendly facts that state the many disunified tribes of Harad as possessing an Empire.