Medieval Minecraft Lesson

If you haven’t checked out the Medieval History Lesson I posed yesterday, well its a good place to start for this. I always mention that while many of our lessons are using Minecraft, we also do a lot out of the game too. Do more research than what I’ve given. So in the article linked above, I mentioned that there are 4 types of Medieval castles: Motte and Bailey, Shell Keep, Concentric Castle and the Palace or Royal Quarters.

As you can see, in all 4 types of castles, they are made by stone. The reason being is that they realized wood burns and would not make a good fortress for when enemies attack. They are also all on a hill or cliff to have a high point advantage. Check out English Heritage for more, as well as Wikipedia, which has divided it up by countries. There are Hundreds of castles spanning all over Europe and Asia that were built during the Medieval time period. Here is just some of the most recognizable from all over.

Eltz Castle, Germany

Bran Castle, Romania

Bojinice Castle, Slovakia

Predjama Catsle, Slovenia

Windsor Castle, England

Brunnenburg Castle, Italy

Himeji Castle, Japan

Trakai Island Castle, Lithuania

Oreo Castle, Sweden

Conway Castle, Wales

Guaita Castle, San Marino

Abash of the Udayas, Morocco

Gravensteen Castle, Belgium

Kilkenny Castle, Ireland

Hochasterwitz Castle Austria

Mechrangarh Fort, India

Topkapi Palace, Turkey

Alcazar de Segovia, Spain

Ksiaz Castle, Poland

The Forbidden City, China

Citadel of Carcassonne, France

Almoural Castle, Portugal

Cairo Citadel, Egypt

Alnwick Castle, England

Monastir’s Ribat, Tunisia

Glamis Castle, Scotland

Karlstejn Castle, Czech Republic

Gyanste Dzong, Tibet

I suggest researching the castle your interested in. Do a virtual tour if you can. Look at the details and build your own version in Minecraft.

The second aspect of this lesson is I found many different mods for Medieval. Matthew and I like to explore all of the mods and talk about what we like, what we don’t and if this is realistic to our world vs fantasy.

Medieval Highlands – Atlantis

Kingdom craft Medieval Adventure

Monteriggioni

Medieval Town 2

Medieval Village House

Medieval Town

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