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SHuifiing te nacky T Here are six cards with reasons why Edward would want to build sucha huge castle in Wales, Read each card, then put these | Edward's main castles were bullt by the sea so that the English could control trade, e.g, buying and selling food. The work on the castle at Caernarfon included building a new port, EK] El | A Never again In 1276, Edward | and Llywelyn the Last made a deal. Llywelyn broke this in 1282 when he } attacked English castles. Edward sent an army to crush Liywelyn, and after 1284 Wales was ruled from England. Caernarfon Castle was built to make sure there would be no [[merectalengesto Engh le TT 2 so Ne NS GR D Protecting settlers From the twelith century, English families settled in Wales, The problem was that many Welsh people were not too happy to have them there. A castle could protect settlers from angry locals. B End of Welsh rule Ly The last of the Welsh princes | —Liywelyn the Greatand Llywelyn the Last - sometimes stayed at the wooden castle at Caernarfon. Bulldinga large stone castle would be an | | | important sign of the end of the | | rule of the Welsh princes. 7 pane H E That's cheap! |_| Castles werea cheap way of [>] controlling a country. Although H expensive to build, theywere | | \] cheap to run. Acastle only | | | needed a small numberof | defenders because it was so } | well designed and so strong. aN XN \ 2 F Ruling = | The king's officials could run I f | \ } acountryfromacastle.The | _— tA — ~~") officials were well protected

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