Question: What is the layout of most castles?
Answer: Starting with the outside, if the castles had moats, the moats would go first, then the curtain walls second, the outer bailey third, the inner bailey fourth, and finally the keep (actual place where the king and queen are).
Question: How do you attack a castle?
Answer:There are three ways to get control of a castle.
1. Demand surrender without a fight.
2. Starve people inside.*
3. Batter down the walls with a battering ram (can smash down walls up to five meters wide).
1. Enemy will wait outside until the people in the castle will surrender.
2. Using a siege, could last up to months or up to a year.
3. The enemy will hope that people inside will run out of food and water.
There are many methods to use while attacking a castle.
1. Tunnel in and knock down walls.
2. Use catapults.
3. Surprise attack at night and climb over walls.
4. Use a battering ram (a long log that can knock down walls).
Question: How would they defend a castle?
Answer: People in castles used many methods to defend their castle.
1. They used moats: water around a castle.
2. Drawbridges: blocked entrances.
3. Portcullis: iron gate.
4. Murder holes: dumped hot things down the murder hole on attackers.
*Food and water were essential and was just as important as weapons. They had to have enough food and water to out last sieges.
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