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Medieval castles were designed and built in such a way to provide many features that protected the people inside. First, the castle's walls were thick. This made the walls difficult to knock down or in. Some castles are known as concentric castles. Concentric castles were surrounded by several walls. These extra walls provided better protection against attackers. So, the castle walls are the first way to defend your castle. Many medieval castles were crenellated at the top. Crenallated means they had parts that stuck up like teeth. In times of battle, archers, which are an important class of the castle defenders, hid behind the higher parts merlons and shot arrows through the openings crenels.Archers also fired arrows through arrow loops. Arrow loops were narrow slits or cross-shaped openings in the wall. Crenels, merlons, arrow loops, and archers combine to provide the second way to defend your castle. Some castles had parts of walls that stuck out further than the rest. These extruding parts of the walls are called machicolations. In battle, castle soldiers dropped boiling water or rocks on their attackers through holes in the machicolation's floor. These were called murder holes.Murder holes are the third way to defend your castle. Another architectural defense used in some castles was called the talus. A talus was a lower section of a castle's walls that had an outward slope. The idea was that rocks would bounce off a talus back toward the enemy. The talus is another way to defend your castle. The castle's main entrance was often placed on the other side of a gatehouse. In front of the gate attackers would find a heavy iron gate, called a portcullis. Defenders lowered the portcullis with chains and pulleys when they were under attack. The gatehouse and portcullis provide yet another way to defend your castle. On the sides of the gatehouse towers would often be built. The stairways in these towers always curved to the right so that knights coming down the stairs had room to swing their swords. Many of the major castles were surrounded by a moat. A moat was a deep ditch that was often filled with water. A drawbridge led across the moat to the gatehouse. In times of war, the castle defenders pulled up the drawbridge to close off this entrance to the castle. The towers and moat offer more ways to defend your castle. Sometimes, these castles contained secret passages. In times of siege these secret passages could be used to hide provisions as well as people. In a few rare cases the passages provided a means of escaping from the castle undetected. Even this can be considered as another castle defend technique.

There is an obvious purpose for a castle. The castle serves a defense for the country from foreign invaders, as well as the basic tool in preserving the king's and the nobles' power over the land.
Therefore, the purpose of attacking the castle is to take power and wealth of the country. Power, as in to kill their leader, so civilians will be forced to serve the foreign invader. This would give the foreign invader more land, control and wealth. Wealth is basically when they plunder the castle for their riches.

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