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Toilets in castles were in smali rooms where medieval people stored their clothes and other valuables. At one end was a hole with a wooden seat over it. This was the toilet, which emptied down a chute straight into the castle moat.

Guest apartments

Anteroom:

Smali cham ber leading to the Great Hall

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Robing room: Where nobles put on their gowns before entering the Great Hall

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Malbork Castle, Poland

The largest medieval castle in Europę.

Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany

19th-century fantasy castle built by the Bavarian king, Ludwig II.

Rumelian Castle, Turkey

Fortress guarding the narrowest part of the Bosporus Strait.

Windsor Castle, England

The world's largest inhabited castle and one of the official homes of the British monarch.

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How to:

rescue a damsel

^ Try knocking down V A the walls with a trebuchet—a contraption that hurls large Stones.

Prop a tali ladder \j£a against the tower. Watch out for soldiers waiting to pour boiling oil on your head.

Pound the walls with a battering ram (a heavy log).

MDig tunnels under the tower and start brushwood fires to bring the foundations down.

^ If all else fails, bribe W w a servant to open the door and let you in.

How the feudal system worked

01: Medieval kings

granted land to their lords in return for military support.

02: Lords kept their own army of knights in their castles.

03: It became expensive to feed so many knights, so the lord granted them estates of land, called manors.

04: Manors usually came with a house, church, village, fields, woods, and orchards.

05: Peasants did all the hard work on the manor. They had to farm the lord's fields, as well as their own, and pay him rent.

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The lady of the castle (chatelaine)

supervised spinning and weaving, organized the herb garden, and prepared simples (herbal remedies).

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Castle meals

■ Meals were eaten in the castle hall at long wooden tables.

■ The main meal was at noon and consisted of three or four courses.

■ People used their own knives (forks were still unknown).

■ Food was served on wooden plates or sometimes on slabs of dry bread (trenchers).

■ Minstrels and jugglers provided live entertainment on special occasions.

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