Development of the castles

Question 1

why did they ditch the motte and bailey

Answer 1

because it was easily burnt and it would rot

Question 2

What was the castle after the motte and Bailey

Answer 2

The stone keep castle

Question 3

When was the stone keep castle built

Answer 3

1070

Question 4

What was the key features of the stone keep castle

Answer 4

• massive square towers with four corner turrets
• built in times of william the conqueor and william rufus his son
• it had extremely thick walls
• william and his master castle builder Gundalf built the massive white tower in london to dominate the local inhabitants

Question 5

why did william ditch the stone keep castle

Answer 5

• easy to undermine at corners
• corners had defensive blind spots

Question 6

what was the castle after the stone keep castle called

Answer 6

round towers

Question 7

what did william improve to the stone keep castle

Answer 7

they put it rounded and rounded turrets and curtain walls

Question 8

why did they ditch the round towers

Answer 8

even though it was good for defense, the english seiges were hard to stop

Question 9

when were round towers built

Answer 9

1150

Question 10

what was the improved castle called after the round towers

Answer 10

concentric castle

Question 11

when was the concentric castles built

Answer 11

1270

Question 12

what were the key features of the concentric castles

Answer 12

• layers of walls to get to the main castle
• an attacker could maybe get past one wall but then would get trapped with arrows shooting down on them
• stone hard walls
• cylinders or towers around the castle
• the bridges are the walls
• the weakness is that it is very big and woukd take a lot of time to build
• as it is so big you have to defend a big area of land so you would need alot of people to defend it