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I love this. Naive feudal lords as the historical equivalent to high net worth preppers.

• eproxus 3y ago
  What could be more prepping than building a whole stone castle? It’s the historical equivalent of a bunker for most part of modern (and ancient) history
  • smsm42 3y ago
    Building castles to cover captured terrain was pretty common (unless of course there already was one around, in which case you besiege and take it, if you can). Of course, building a stone ond rakes time, so they'd build a temp one first, and then, ic theh manage to keep the territory, update it. So if it's prepping, it's a very common and prudenf version of it.
    • mkoubaa 3y ago
      I wonder how many castles were built like codebases. Start with a little MVP and accumulate stuff over time that eventually gets refactored and eventually seems well thought out
      • bombcar 3y ago
        Apparently many of them, insofar as they started small and became large encrusted monoliths over time.