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How castles started?

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Candyfoose

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well castles were houses at first and then vikings started to attack there land so they thought by making there houses bigger it would word but they viking kept comin back so the made them even bigger with forts and knights and all this stuff so ever since then they started making castles stonger and made out of rock and it was hard for the vikings but easyr for the people in the city

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