HOA2 FINALS QUIZ NO. 1

a small turret defending the entrance to a castle

• Machicolation

• Bartizan

• Donjon

• Balistraria

A stronghold of a medieval castle; usually in the form of a massive tower

• Turret

• Keep

• Battlement

• Portcullis

a gate of iron or iron-enforced wooden bars made to slide up & down in vertical grooves in the jambs of a doorway, use for defense in castle gateways

• Turret

• Portcullis

• Battlement

• Machicolation

the cross-shaped opening in the battlements & elsewhere for the use of the crossbow

• Machicolation

• Balistraria

• Bartizan

• Crenel

the crenels or intervals between merlons of a battlement

• Bartizan

• Embrasures

• Donjon

• Portcullis

An overhanging defensive structure at the top of a medieval fortification with floor openings

• Merlon

• Machicolation

• Bartizan

• Balistraria

the solid alternates between embrasures

• Drawbridge

• Merlon

• Loophole

• Crenel

a parapet with alternating indentations (crenel and merlon)

• Machicolation

• Battlement

• Turret

• Balistraria