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 No.21777

I recently came across a heritage post about a castle in Lebanon built by the Crusaders, It got me curios and I did some digging and I was surprised to learn that pretty much all castles in the MENA countries were either built by the Crusaders or the later Ottomans.
So I have to ask, what gives? The Arabs were a smart people and castles and fortresses are a fairly useful resource for defeating cavalry forces. Even outside large scale war sand politics, in small petty tribal warfare, they would have been incredibly useful, that's why they appeared so much in Europe and why did the Ottomans adopt them more thoroughly then the Arabs.

 No.21778

castle are expensive to build and maintain, you build them if you expect to need them, and in medieval europe you did need them everwhere as it was kind of a clusterfuck of feodalism, while ottoman was a big empire without much need for castle in the middle of their territory

pure guess though

 No.21779

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Wasn't there more of a tendency to build walled cities?

Also, most castles historically were actually built from wood, not stone. Stone castles were considerably more expensive to build and more advanced. The relative lack of wood could be a limiting factor in the development of castles as a technology. The reason we think of castles as being made of stone is because wood rots. Lacquered wood castles like in Japan do survive today.

 No.21780

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_castles

 No.21798

the middle east had kasbahs, citadels that included a palace, which are similar
castles are just a specific style of military fortification specific to medieval western europe
they probably came about from decentralization of feudal polities and a need to project noble power in the provinces

 No.21799

>>21798
Then why did the Ottomans build them.

 No.21801

Arabs are plenty capable of building stone forts(they most likely built great Zimbabwe). they just don't build castles that much.

 No.21805

>>21799
did they? i would assume common influence from byzantine architecture that both western europe and the ottoman empire had


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