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Flashcards by Gerry Burke, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Gerry Burke
over 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Middle Ages | 500 AD - 1500 AD |
| William the Conqueror | Norman leader who invaded England in 1066 |
| Bayeux Tapestry | Tapestry which tell the story of the invasion of England by William the Conqueror |
| Domesday Book | Surveyed land ownership in England after the Normans arriving |
| Feudalism | The way the ownership and control of land was organised |
| King | Owned all the land |
| Barons and Bishops | Most powerful of the king's subjects |
| tenants-in-chief | Barons and Bishops |
| fief | land which a lord received |
| vassal | Lord who was faithful to the king |
| manors | Knights were given villages with land around them |
| demesne | Land kept by a knight for his own private use |
| Peasants | Farmers |
| motte | A mound of earth |
| Bailey | A flat area or courtyard |
| Keep | A timber tower |
| Lodgings | Where soldiers stayed |
| Stables | Where horses were kept |
| Workshops | Buildings in the bailey |
| Kitchens | Where cooking was done |
| Hall | Where meals were eaten and the lord conducted his business |
| Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim | Example of a great stone castle |
| Moat | Surrounded a castle and was filled with water |
| curtain walls | walls which surrounded a castle |
| Battlements | Protection for a walk inside the top of the castle wall |
| Towers/Turrets | Built at intervals along the castle wall |
| slots/loopholes | soldiers shot arrows through them |
| Drawbridge | A means of crossing the moat, it was lowered by chains |
| Portcullis | An iron grill raised to allow people enter and leave a castle |
| Gatehouse | Controlled the machinery for entering the castle |
| Well | Provided water supply in castle grounds |
| spiral staircase | stairs in castle |
| Tapestry | hand woven cloth decorated with pictures Hand woven cloth decorated with pictures hung on the walls of a castle |
| Great Hall | Venue for feasts and entertainment |
| Put under siege | surround castle |
| machines | used to fire rocks, fireballs and large arrows at a castle |
| siege towers | used to get over castle wall |
| scaling ladders | used to get over castle wall |
| battering ram | used to break down doors of the gatehouse |
| movable wooden shed | used to protect those operating battering ram |
| undermining the wall | tunneling under castle wall to collapse it |
| door | above the ground with steep steps |
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