1. Who were the people dependent upon?
Answer: The people were dependent upon the lord of the manner.
2.Where did they choose to build? And why?
Answer: They choose to built on a rock next to the water for defense and its easy to escape.
3. What was the first ring of the castle called?
Answer: The first ring of the castle was called
4. How long will the walls be on the outer curtain?
Answer:The walls in the outer curtain will be 300 feet high.
5.How thick was the inner curtain?How high?
Answer:The inner curtain was 12 feet thick and 35 feet high.
6.Make a sketch
7. What's the center of the inner ward?
Answer: In the center of the inner ward there was the living quarters.
8. How many entrances in the town wall? How are they protected?
Answer: There were 3 entrances in the town hall and were protected by gate houses.
9.Why did people move to towns?
Answer: The people moved to towns because the king needed them to work on his castle.
10.What are the walls filled with?
Answer: The walls were filled with rubble.
11. How are the windows designed, starting from the bottom to the top of the towers?
Answer: The windows in the bottom are designed small enough so that an enemy soldier can not climb through, all the windows will be protected with iron grills and can be closed with wooden shutters. In the top of the towers the windows will be fitted with glass.
12. What are the crenulations used for?
Answer: Crenulations are used so that a soldier and shoot from the same position without getting hurt.
13. Why are the gate houses not lined up from the inner to the outer ward?
Answer: The gate houses are not lined up from the inner to the outer ward so that and enemy soldier can't go straight in.
14.How are the towers levels divided?
Answer: There 3 rooms in every tower, The first one is in the basement (for storage), in the upper ones were used for living and working space.
15.What defenses are in a gate house?
Answer: The gate houses had defenses like timber port calus below it to block the entrance and a set of wooden doors and arrow loops in the towers and murder holes in the ceiling that way they can attack from whatever side the enemies are entering and the gate houses start with a draw bridge.
16.What are the buildings made from?
Answers: They are made with wattle and daub.
17. What lived in the bottom of the barracks? The top?
Answer: They had stables and weapon in the bottom of the barracks and soldiers lived in the top.
18. What is a garderobe?
Answer: A garderobe is a bathroom.
19.Why were nicer rooms higher in the towers?
Answers: Nicer rooms were higher because that way they could have nicer windows.
20.How thick were the walls?
Answer: The walls were 8-10 feet thick.
21. What was used to heat the rooms?
Answer: Fire places were used to heat the rooms.
22. How many rooms were in a tower?
Answer:There were 3 rooms in a tower.
23. What was the most important room in a castle?
Answer: The great hall was the most important room in the castle
24. How did peasants live?
Answer: The peasants lived wooden shacks.
25.What was the main material that was used to build medieval homes?
Answer: The main material used to build houses was wattle and daub.
26. What is wattle? What is a daub?
Answer: Wattle is a woven latis of sticks and is covered on both sides with daub a mixture of mud, cow dong and straw.
27.Why did people settle in towns?
Answer: People settled in towns because of low taxes and a promise of a better life.
28.What is the best location in a town?
Answer: The best location in town is somewhere close to the well
29.What were the floors (bottom) made from?
Answer:The floors were made of packterth covered with reeds.
30.What were the windows covered with?
Answers:The windows were covered with oil skin.
31. What was the main source of heat and light?
Answer: The main source of heat and light is their fire.
32. Why would no one want to live behind the butcher shop?
Answers: No one wanted to live behind the butcher shop because other shops are more desirable.
33. What does a barber do? (besides cut hair)
Answer: The barber cures all types of ills.
34. Are there sewers?
Answer:Yes there are.
35.Are toilets?
Answer: Yes there are.
36. Where does the waste go?
Answer:It goes to the sespit.
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