Something used in battle to injure, destroy or kill.
What is a weapon?
100
Knights could only afford to buy this.
What is armor?
100
These are the three types of soldiers in the Middle Ages.
Who are foot soldiers, archers, and knights?
100
Technological, cultural, and social developments.
What had forced a dramatic alteration in the character of warfare from changing military tactics and artillery?
100
The placing of an army around a fortified place or city to force it to surrender.
What is siege?
200
It is a siege engine. It was used to pelt projectiles at castles.
What is a trebuchet?
200
This type of armor was in the early Middle Ages. It was made up of tens of thousands of interlocking rings woven painstakingly by hand to form a shirt, coif, or leggings.
What is chain mail?
200
These men were used in siege. They would be the ones shooting arrows through the arrow slit.
Who are crossbowmen?
200
These are two types of military strategies.
What are siege and trickery?
200
A contraption that is used to destroy or break down a city walls or other fortifications in siege warfare.
What is a siege engine?
300
A weapon with a long straight handle and sharp head or blade used for throwing or jabbing.
What is a spear?
300
These were first used to to protect vital areas such as the chest and shoulders. In the early fifteenth century they were used as a full body suit. The medieval "knight in shining armor" that most people think of is a knight wearing this.
What is plate armor?
300
These men are very important on the open field. At one point half of an English army were of these men.
Who are archers?
300
The Viking king of Norway, Harold Hardrada.
Who laid siege to a castle in England, by using trickery?
300
These are some types of siege engines.
What is are battering rams, catapults, ballistae, and trebuchets.
400
A large 2-edged sword formerly used by Scottish Highlanders. It was used in the 1500’s .
What is a claymore?
400
It became smaller and smaller until it was not used anymore
What is a shield?
400
These men were the most common. They came in large groups, but were easy to kill.
Who are foot soldiers?
400
He was sent a message to preform a Christian burial from the Viking King of Norway.
Who is the priest of the castle that was taken over?
400
Some of the castle's defenses against siege.
What are moats, drawbridges and fire-retardant doors?
500
A short bow mounted crosswise near the end of a wooden stock that shoots short arrows .
What is a crossbow?
500
This is what chain mail protected after plate armor caught on.
What is the groin and the underarms?
500
They are the wealthiest type of soldier. Their service was part of the feudal agreement.
Who are knights?
500
Harold jumped out of his coffin and with the rest of his men took over the castle from the inside.
What did King Harold do after he entered the castle's courtyard?