The Evolution of the British Castle – A Short History

Written by Stuart Bazga


Since Greek and Roman times, man has strived to establish some type of a fortification for protection and shelter. Overrepparttar pursuing centuries these evolved into a form of military and residential places known as castles.

When Williamrepparttar 109137 Conqueror, conquered England in 1066, his armies quickly erected wooden palisades (a fence of stakes or iron railings forming an enclosure or defence) establishing a presence inrepparttar 109138 former Saxon kingdoms. Many of these fortresses were constructed on sites that had previously been fortified in pre-Roman times, then byrepparttar 109139 Romans themselves and lastly byrepparttar 109140 Saxons who establishedrepparttar 109141 first kingdoms there. As times became less turbulent and settled,repparttar 109142 Normans became integrated into every day life and were eventually accepted byrepparttar 109143 local populace. These wooden palisades slowly began to disappear, to be replaced with stone. Any new fortifications built from that time onward were constructed entirely from stone.

In Europe, this manifested into a design consisting of a single tower and outer buildings. Inrepparttar 109144 mountains there was no shortage of rocky hilltops on which to build these new bastions. Inrepparttar 109145 lower lying areas, however, islands and peninsulas were much sought after for their ease of defence.

Inrepparttar 109146 British Islesrepparttar 109147 Normans began to dig ditches to create a small hill or mound when one couldn’t be found to build on. These mounds becamerepparttar 109148 first "motte and bailey" castles, some of which were built on top of old Iron Age hill forts.

A "motte" wasrepparttar 109149 conical hill of dirt that was built asrepparttar 109150 main defence forrepparttar 109151 "keep", which was wererepparttar 109152 Lord and his family resided and sought refuge whilst trying to govern their surrounding territory. The keep was basically a tower with one room per floor and usually contained 3 to 4 floors.

Later, a walled area known as a “bailey” began to appear aroundrepparttar 109153 keep with another atrepparttar 109154 base ofrepparttar 109155 motte. Its function was to help protectrepparttar 109156 keep's support functions which grew up aroundrepparttar 109157 original tower: grain storage, wood and metal workshops, military barracks, wells, chapels and sometimes a garden or a great hall where formal functions and meetings were held.

Overrepparttar 109158 intervening years,repparttar 109159 design and style of British castles would appear in various forms throughoutrepparttar 109160 castle building era.

Eventually,repparttar 109161 motte itself began to be replaced with stone and a new style of British castle began to appear. These castles were built withoutrepparttar 109162 motte altogether. The tower keep, however, remained.

The ditch that had separatedrepparttar 109163 “motte” fromrepparttar 109164 bailey became a moat (a deep, wide defensive ditch surrounding a castle or town), either dry or stone-lined, or filled with water from a nearby river or lake. These Moats became a significant part ofrepparttar 109165 castles design.

Helping New Parents and Infants Transition

Written by Veola Momon


Helping New Parents and Infants Transition

Of allrepparttar research done on childcare and early childhood education you'd think someone would do studies onrepparttar 109136 fear that make couples looney inrepparttar 109137 head after they become parents. The biggest thing for a new parent is fear. Fear of what they would do if anything happened to their little Johnny or little Sue. This advice was given to them by their loving and caring family, friends, experts and professionals that never had a child. Truly all of that wonderful advice was meant to helprepparttar 109138 new parents, but it set off a stampede of stuff inside of them even they didn't know they had.

So for three months they are homebound with their new baby while entertaining their family and friends, hearing all ofrepparttar 109139 protection laws forrepparttar 109140 infant from grandparents, aunts and uncles, godparents and admirers whilerepparttar 109141 parnts forgetting they have a world of other living awaiting them when they come up for air.

When they do come up for air to breath back intorepparttar 109142 rest of living they are confronted with questions that begin to shakerepparttar 109143 fabric of their existance.

They have to return to work, they must findrepparttar 109144 perfect caregiver and they must beginrepparttar 109145 "Act" of parenting.

So now where are they? They have read allrepparttar 109146 books on how to care for their baby, how to teach, exercise, feed and love their baby. What not to let others do or not do aroundrepparttar 109147 baby and allrepparttar 109148 wonderful advice fromrepparttar 109149 family and best friends and experts.

Behindrepparttar 109150 doors of a child development center: The notebook of a child "Caregiver". The way to choose a child care center, what to look for that is never revealed and things that are hid that a center may not want you to know.

1. Always have more than one visit. 2. Ask if you may make a random visit. 3. Donot pretend to smile. If you are nervous, be nervous so it can pass easily. 4. Do not be embarassed, write all of your questions down you will remember to ask them. Once you enter a room with infants you loose your thinking power because infants take your mind off why you are there. 5. When you find a center you are comfortable with,repparttar 109151 TRANSITION isrepparttar 109152 sealer to you and your baby beig happy there. 6. A poor transition creates stress. It will leave you uninformed, nervous, in a state of emergency at all times, fearful, worried

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