History
Features
Daily Life
Battles
Defense
100
The material first used to build castles.
What is wood?
100
The central tower of the castle.
What is the keep?
100
The two main groups of people in the castle.
Who are the knights and the servants?
100
What the castle's residents would throw over the walls to show that they weren't hungry.
What is bread?
100
What they would pull back to prevent intruders from entering through the gate/door.
What is a drawbridge?
200
What castles evolved from
What is a defensive structure?
200
The resident of the keep.
Who is the lord/king?
200
The main food eaten in the castle.
What is bread?
200
Things that would be propped up against the castle walls t make enemies think that there were more people than there actually were.
What is a dummy?
200
The outer architectural feature of castles that were hard to get past and trapped enemies.
What is the wall?
300
Mounds of dirt that castles were built on.
What is a motte?
300
The outside part of a castle used for decoration but first used as a defensive device.
What is a moat?
300
The people that made the lord/king's life comfortable.
Who are the servants?
300
Medieval battle strategy focused on taking these.
What is a castle?
300
The part of the castle that was considered the weakest.
What is the entrance?
400
Eventually, these evolved from dirt mounds to a stone part of the castle.
What is a motte?
400
The room under the keep that held prisoners.
What is the dungeon?
400
The entertainment event including jousting.
What is a tournament?
400
The person that would organize an army in the lord's absence.
Who is the lady?
400
Common architectural feature today that slowed down intruders.
What is a spiral staircase?
500
The type of castle surrounded by 2 or more curtain walls.
What is a concentric castle?
500
Castles were used as a home, a court, and _________.
What is a storehouse?.
500
Two types of catapults.
What are trebuchets and mangonels?
500
Gaps in supports for a castle used to drop objects onto invaders.
What is a machicolation?
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