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 | | Castles in Middle Ages Asia | | by balisunset, Sep 9, 2008 | | Hideyoshi limited all daimyo to a single castle and razed all smaller forts. As a result, the daimyo put all their efforts into the one edifice permitted to them so that Japanese castles built in the late-15th and early 16th centuries rose on the most secure and solid foundations and to spectacular heights. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Castles in Middle Ages Europe | | by balisunset, Sep 9, 2008 | | During the early Middle Ages simple stone roundtowers enabled and encouraged chronic ‘‘small wars’’ among petty nobles and hundreds of greater castellans whose private fortresses—some 500 in France alone by the 13th century—ran up and down mountainsides, controlled great rivers and valleys, and dominated open country. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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