English castle vs japanese castle
This Page is about comparisons between English castles and Japanese castles.
english castle-Big walls surrounding the castle
-Mainly made from bricks -Had drawbridges -Had slim cracks in the walls to shoot arrows out of -Had very high walls -Gateway defenses -Round towers at the end of walls -Metal gates -Stairs always turned clockwise in -In the heart of a castle is a tower known as the keep -They had ramparts (steep parts of the earth or rubble) -They had flanking towers -English castles had great halls -Every castle had a chapel -They usually cover a whole heap of land |
japanese castle-Castle built on rock walls so people couldn't get in easily because the walls are hard to climb
-Had curved rooves so it was harder for enemies to climb -were mainly mde from wood and stone -The higher the class of the people the closer the lived to the castle -They had gates and gaurd towers -They had stone foundations -They had large and tall walls for protection -They often had moats surrounding the castle. (moats are deep ditches dug out and filled with water. they used these to stop enemies -Narrow steep stairways to make attackers difficult to get up -They had portholes to shoot guns and arrows -They were mainly built on top of a hill or a small mountain for it was hard for enemies to get up |