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We have better protected homes.We have betteR SAFTEY OR SECURITY Gunpowder made the castle obsolete. You can still build one to live in if you want, but it will not fulfill the protective purpose that castles were intended for in the Middle Ages.

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With the use of cannons, and more modern artillery pieces, a castle would not stand for long. Also, the occupiers of the castle could easily find themselves under siege, subjected to starvation, and disease - in other words - trapped.

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