As you look out the wind hole of the giant keep all you see is the moat and the giant meadows! You
see the horses and nights charging towards the castle. Panic flies all over your body. You tell your
servants to run and warn the defenders to prepare for a siege. BOOOM! The castle wall starts
collapsing!A castle has many defenses. One of them is that the walls had small slits in them. They were called arrow loops. These allowed the
defenders to shoot arrows out at the enemy. They stood on ledges or galleries. If one defender died the rest did not care! They just
went on with the battle. Round walls made each part of the castle harder to hit. Outer walls gradually got thicker and was harder to get
through and harder to get over. Doors and gates had thick iron plates on them and needed more protection because they were wooden.
A series of walls is farther from the moat so it would be even harder for the enemy. The castle could not get fresh food under attack.
When their supplies ran out they would have to surrender. So the defenders had to get rid of the enemy before the supplies were gone.
A castle could attack in many ways. Giant crossbows and cannons were some of the main sources of attack for a castle. They also used
catapults, crossbows, and bow and arrows. They started lighting arrows on fire for more destruction. If they were attacking a castle
and were loosing bad the horse helped them get out fast. Soldiers or Knights used ladders or scaling towers to climb over walls. They
also used a battering ram to Knock down walls. Castles were very important in the Middle Ages.