Castles_of_the_Middle_Ages

Castles of the Middle Ages Castles in the middle ages were dark clammy and cold. Their purpose was to protect the community during hard feudal times. Castles were first being built around 1000AD and were just stopping being built around 1450 AD. They were located throughout England, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and Wales. The first castles were being built on hills or large open plains so that knights and guards could see enemies coming from far away. Castles were built for protection and safety. They had lots of ways for defending themselves. Most castles would have moats and drawbridges but there were many more ways of defense such as the portcullis, (a portcullis is a heavy iron gate that can be lifted to let people in or out.) It would be located on the in side of the drawbridge. Nowadays walls are made to keep out rain, weather, animals, and also to have privacy, but in the Middle Ages castle walls were for keeping enemies out and were sometimes up to 12 feet thick. Guards would walk along the tops of the walls with bows and arrows in case castles, because, out, middle, knights, ages, walls, enemies, castle, thing, popular, large, keep, entertainment, cold, built, very, purpose, off, nowadays, live, let, knight, just, help, guards, first, didn’t, dark, bread, being, arrows, around, whole, ways, warm, types, times, stone, sometimes, served, rotten, put, portcullis, place, people, one, made, luxurious, lots