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Attacking and Defending a Castle Quickquiz

 

 You have 60 seconds to answer true or false to the questions below:

1. The best way to attack an early castle was with fire.
2. Fire was a good way to attack a stone castle.
3. Battering rams were used to knock people out of the way.
4. Pick axes were sometimes used to knock holes through thin stone walls.
5. Ladders were used to climb castle walls.
6.  The belfry tower was a closed in ladder on wheels.
7. A mangonel was used underground.
8.  Tunnels were often dug underground and castles exploded from underneath.
9. A siege was used to starve people out of the castle.
10. Sieges were usually over very quickly.

 

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