Why did they make moats around castles?

Answer 1

for protection.
Traditionally, moats were excavated around castles and fortifications as part of the defensive system, and were usually filled with water. They provided a preliminary barrier outside the fortification walls against attacks upon the complex. A moat made access to the walls difficult for siege weapons, such as a siege towers and battering rams, which needed to be brought up against a wall to be effective. A very important feature was that a water-filled moat made very difficult the practice of sapping or undermining, that is to say digging tunnels under the fortifications in order to effect a collapse of the defenses.

The word was adapted in Middle English from the French motte "mound, hillock" and was first applied to the central mound on which a fortification was erected (see Motte and bailey), and then came to be applied to the excavated ring, a "dry moat". The term moat is also applied to natural formations reminiscent of the artificial structure.

Answer 2

Moat Around A Castle

Answer 3

Moats kept armored foot soldiers from getting too close to the wall, to put up ladders for scaling the walls. If the moat was deep enough, it would be very difficult to fight in the water, what with things being rained down on your head (rocks, boiling water or tar,etc), and impossible to set up any sort of close-in apparatus to get over the walls. The only way into the castle was through the drawbridge over the moat, and it would be pulled up in times of battle.
In some cases (in the 10th century, during the Seige of Nantes in France), mercenaries were hired to tunnel under the moat, coming up inside the castle walls. Sometimes this succeeded and sometimes not.
\ If you think about it, the moat concept is useful and becomes explained if you take your dog or cat's food dish and put it in a large pan of water to keep the ants away. Same principle, only on a different scale.
Also, Moats look really cool, and there probably were a few with alligators or piranhas to discourage unwanted intruders.

Answer 4

To protect the castles from people attacking, their reasoning was that if people tried to cross the moat, they would drown.

Answer 5

The following answers are both correct. The technical details are that the pit makes the effective height of the wall higher, thereby making the wall more difficult to scale. Also, the water in the pit made a more formidable obstacle to attackers.

Answer 6

To protect the castle from invaders,many a villain has come to grief this way. Also it was part of their waste disposal system,,they had toilet vents above the level of the water ,it was inadvisable to stand to close in the summer,

Answer 7

To keep invaders from coming over the walls.

Answer 8

so invading forces could not get into the castle.

Answer 9

Some place to put the alligators?

Answer 10

To make them easier to protect.