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Cannons That Ended Medieval Castles

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In 1453, walls that had stood for a thousand years fell in weeks. Not to an army but

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to a new machine. For centuries, medieval castles were nearly unstoppable. Thick stone walls.

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High towers. Narrow gates. Then came gunpowder artillery. Gunpowder reached

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Europe by the 13th century, but everything changed in the 1400s. In 1453,

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Ottoman sultan Mehmed II besieged Constantinople. His massive bronze cannons built by the engineer Urban

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smashed through the Theodosian Walls. These walls had defeated every previous siege since Roman

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times. The lesson spread fast. In 1494, King Charles VIII

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of France invaded Italy with mobile siege cannons. Italian city-states watched medieval

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