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Explain why castles were built defended attacked and why they became obsolete.?
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∙ 7y ago
Gun powder made castles useless. The first castles were mott and bailey designs. This means they were made of wooden posts on hills with the wooden walls surrounding an open area that contained stables, a few huts, the main castle hall. There are a lot of disadvantages to wood because it can be set on fire, the weather rots wood, and it can be damaged with tools. The result was to make castles stronger by using stone. Instead of tearing down the wooden walls they made a facade in front of them and then filled in the space between the stone and wood with the debris of the walls. So, at a distance it looked like one solid wall and castle. When gun power was invented and came to Europe the days of castles was numbered. A hole could be blown into a wall with a cannonball, so the castles no longer provided protection to the people of the castle.
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How were crusader castles defended?
By battering rams.
How were motte and bailey castles defended and attacked?
they were attacked by soldiers setting the motte and Bailey castles alight and the castles also had pickaxes through at the door because in a matter of time the pickaxes would make a hole in the door and they could get through.
How did castles defend themselves?
Castles usually defended themselves by having a wall with a moat or ontop of a hill
How did the ways in which castles attacked change?
Castles don't attack they defend.
How were William the conquerors castles attacked?
they thougt things over the castles
How were castles attacked and defended between 1066 and 1500?
attacks: If it was made out of wood, set it on fire. If it had corners destroy them to collapse the castle. Defenses: Make it out of stone Design with no corners, circles or bends instead.
Why medieval castles became obsolete?
To hard and costly to make.
What castles were attacked the most during the medieval times?
motte and bailey castles
What invention made castles obsolete?
the siege tower
Two examples how castles were defended in the past?
With towers, and by pouring boiling oil on the invaders. Archers would stand at the top of the castle and in towers and shoot.---- Castles were defended by moats, drawbridges, fortified walls, armed guards on patrol, fortified inner keeps.---- Some castles were defended with things called curtain walls which were known as 'walls within walls' . ----
How Japanese castles defend themselves?
japanese castles defended themselves by building higher walls so attackers couldnt attack.
How were stone castles attacking?
castles were attacked by invaders shooting at the castles with arrows, cannons, catapults, trebuchets or a battering ram.
