A gatehouse is a building at the gate of a castle or fortified town or city. It is intended to provide defense of the gate. It was often also used as a place where members of the garrison could sleep, so they could be called to defend more quickly. It often included mechanisms that could raise and lower a drawbridge or portcullises. In a castle it was usually the strongest position in the curtain wall.
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A monarch, second only to the pope who directs everyone.
The usual definition of the middle ages places it after the age of antiquity or ancient times. The date for beginning of the middle ages is variously placed at different years in the fifth century, perhaps with 476 being the most often used. There is a definition of the middle ages that places it as being after the dark ages, beginning the dark ages in the fifth century and the middle ages in the year 1000. Some historians regard this naming as old fashioned.
The third period of the Middle Ages was the Late Middle Ages. The first is called the Early Middle Ages or the Dark Age. The second period was the High Middle Ages.
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There was no nylon in the Middle Ages. Nylon was invented in the 20th century; the Middle Ages ended in the 15th.