Why did castles fall into decline?

Answer 1

Better technology - mainly gunpowder for canons and demolition - but even without gunpowder the advance in other technology made taking castles fairly predictable but... some old castles in world war two were able able to hold out under some really brutal attacks for quite some time - i am totally amazed at a castle on Okinawa during world war two that received an incredible barrage of munitions for several days but the Japanese survived and still had to be taken with great effort and lose of life - so although eventually castles cannot survive in modern warfare they can still be very difficult to take (the Japanese castles may look fragile but they were very well designed) I imagine with today's super weapons there would be no problem taking any castle as it could simply be 100% destroyed

Answer 2

The development of gunpowder and cannons made castles much more easy to attack. Poeple eventually realised that there was no point spending money building castles that were going to be destroyed within a matter of months, so they started to use their money to make something worthwhile, i.e cannons and gunpowder

Answer 3

because there was more powerful weopons made

Answer 4

gunpowder. walls arent much good when you can blow them up.

Answer 5

the castles died out because there was not enough people who wanted to become warriors or soldiers to fight for freedom for there castle and there town

Answer 6

Because of gun powder and more powerful substances being invented.

Answer 7

because it was too much money to keep making them and they just kept getting invaded, and it was too much for the Normans to carry on with all the battles and repairs

Answer 8

because of gunpowder

Answer 9

Castles weren't being used any longer because they didn't need to have them and there weren't anymore big wars over castles so people decided not to build them any longer