In Europe, when traveling around, one will see large stone structures which are strongly fortified, known as castles. The Castle was a medieval European stronghold which started to develop around the 9th century in England and the 10th century in France. Castles were a great defense mechanism and the home to the ruler of the territory it occupied. Castles started off rudimentary. It was usually a structure just built on a hill surrounded by a …showed first 75 words of 479 total…

…showed last 75 words of 479 total…Forts were now being built all around Europe to defend this type of attack. While trying to defend the guns, these forts would now have guns attached to them. Castles played a large role in feudalism. The lord of the feudal land that the serfs or peasants worked on lived in the castles. The manor house was the residence of these lords also. The manor houses were fortified though not as fortified as a castle.