The Questions
1- What is a castle and why were castles built?
2- What materials were used to construct a castle
and how
long did it take to build?
3- Where did the people who lived in the castles
get food
and water?
4- What class of people lived in a castle?
(Be sure to
elaborate on your answer!)
5- Name all the parts of a castle.
6- Name at least five castles you happened upon during
your search!
7- During the medieval period, more often than
not, the
residents of a castle felt themselves under siege. How did
they prepare for these attacks?
What did they do to
to protect themselves?
8- If you wanted to overtake one of these castles, what
were the three ways you could so?
9- Define some of the weaponry that was used in order to
attack a castle?
10- Explain the decline of the castle. Why did
it fall
relatively out of existence?
