History

• • Domesday Book
A book of all the things in every village
• Motte and bailey castle

• • Strength: Being able to see for away
• • Strength: Being able to put a whole village in there
• • Motte and bailey castle
• • Weakness: Very highly flammable
• • Weakness: Not very strong
• • Tithe
A group of people in charge of a landlord
• • Castle walls
By 1200, how thick
• • Walls of a typical house
• • First castle towers

  • Square in shape
  • Helped attackers
• • Trebuchet
Useful for attacking a castle
• • Concentric castle
• • Concentric castles

  • Walls were thicker
  • Harder to mine
  • Harder to cross-fire
  • No corners
• • Tactics used to attack a castle
  • Trebuchet
  • Siege tower
  • Sappers
  • Greek fire
  • Battering ram
  • Tortoise
• The Black Death killed about one third of Europe's population, including King Edward III.
• The Black Death was caused by fleas on rats that spread the disease.
• • Tithe
A group of people in charge of a landlord
• • Castle walls
By 1200, how thick
• • Walls of a typical house
• • First castle towers

• Square in shape

  • Helped attackers
• • Trebuchet
Useful for attacking a castle
• • Domesday Book
A book of all the things in every village
• • Motte and bailey castle

  • Strength: Being able to see for away
  • Strength: Being able to put a whole village in there
• Motte and bailey castle

  • Weakness: Very highly flammable
  • Weakness: Not very strong
• 2) High walls with arrow slits
• 4) A drawbridge over the moat