posted 09-05-2001 04:20 AM            

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pplz... i am really upset coz i cant find anything on

*early forms of castles
*stone castles
*ways that castles could be defended
*what it would be like to live in a castle
*why castles are no longer built
if n e 1 haz n e idea on n e of these ... PLEASE TELL ME COZ I DONT WANT MY HISTORY TEACHER TO GIVE ME AN F AND I LEFT IT TO THE LAST MINUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bub bye
p.s . help me or ill get an F

posted 09-05-2001 10:26 AM         

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Duncan is right, Lil Missy, Castle Quest, and in particular, the Schools Projects Forum, is full of similar questions, answers for which have been provided many times. Looking at the replies to other people's questions could save you (and us) time.

Anyhow, and just this once, try looking at http://www.castlesontheweb.com/members/wurdsmiff/develop.htm for starters, then use the "search" function at the top of the page.

posted 10-10-2001 08:34 PM            

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Lil_missy, the reasons you didn't get the answers written out for you on this forum are many.
Mainly you have to look at the questions you asked. Most are vague, they each encompass a huge amount of information and couldn't possibly be answered well by us in less than a few thousand words. Also, you state that you left it to the last minute, and have basically come to QC to get your homework done for you. We don't do that! We are happy to help people find certain pieces of information, but not to have to write out whole chapters. Which is what you were asking for. In doing your own research for the project you may have ralized just how much informationh there is out there regarding your questions, particularly when you ask for info on "Stone castles", which basically covers about 800 years of european military architecture. No small ask.
And as Duncan and AJR said to you, most of the answers are already given in other parts of the forum, and if you have read through some of them you may have come across suggestions to others asking such questions to go to their local library. Libraries almost always have a few books on castles which give good, basic information on the sort of questions you have asked. They are a much better source of such info than trying to find what is scattered over hundreds of websites on the WWW.
I'm glad you did the work yourself
and achieved a B+ in the process, congratulations.

Erik

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