why were monasteries built?
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Inheritance laws.  The first son was son and heir.  He got the lions share of the family wealth.  The second son was the spare, in case the first died or disgraced himself.  Son 3 and on presented problems.  Monasteries would take these boys and tuck them out of the way.
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They provide a firm foundation to build on.  \n\nMuch better than trying to build on the water.
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The most famous such example is Abu Simbel in Egypt. The entire temple was carved out of a mountain -- and almost unbelievably, the entire temple was cut out of the mountain and moved to another location in the 1970's, to prevent it being submerged by the Aswan High Dam.
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Church buildings are symbols of religious institutions.  Jesus detested religious institutions.  They killed him for it.  Your question makes no sense to me.  I see no corelation between the teachings of Jesus and churches today.  I think if he came back the churches would be just as quick to denounce him today as they were 2,000 years ago.
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The Church was founded by the risen Christ, to overcome evil and lead all souls to heaven.\n\nOutside the Church there can be no assurance of salvation ... for anyone.
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Looking for riches. Looking for new lands to conquer. Wanted to get away from the wife and kids. Because it was there. Lots of reasons.
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There were designers, architects, contractors and all other resources which were required to build super structures like castles and churches, and all other large structures.
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there  is  NOTHING   in  the  world  --- that  matches  the  work  of    MICHEAL  ANGELO \n\n  but  many  ancient  u k  cathedrals  and  abbeys  have  a  similar  beauty  and   GREAT  HISTORY\n\n we  older people   in   ENGLAND   are  PROUD   of  our  history\n\n  try   WELLS   cathedral   in  somerset ---  or  the  famous   WEST  MINSTER  ABBEY    in  london -----  for starters  ---  \n\nbut  i  still  say\n\n answer  to  question ---  is    NO\n\n  cos  nothing  compares  \n\n   GOD   BLESS  YOU\n\n   regards\n\n   M. M.
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A group of buildings.\nNot simple, but complex.\nDifficult because of many variables.\n\nSomething like that.... Good Luck!\n\nSue
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Many of the Saints in the Orthodox Church had children they were not forbidden to have children.  I know that some popes had children so some saints probably did too.
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Stonehenge was probably built by transferring huge slabs of stone and sculpting them by lighting them on fire, and then pouring cold water on them. Nobody really knows why. Some people claim it was built by the Druids as an altar. It also could have been an astronomy site. \nMy question is this: why build it out of extremely heavy stone when there was wood in abundance? ( Whoever built it probably transported the stone on rollers.)
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An abbey means that it is the residence of religious like monks or nuns.
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Stone, mortar, wood-these were the simple components used to construct some of the most heavily fortified structures ever created.\n\nEarly castles relied on the surrounding landscape to provide much of the protection. Early castles were made of wood and built on hills of "mottes". Surrounded by a high, wooden palisade, motte and bailey castles were used widely until the Norman invasion of 1066. These fortifications proved too easy to burn, and stone was then used more frequently.\n\nCastles were rarely the most comfortable place to live, with only the lord and his family given adequate heat and other amenities. Medieval castles were built for safety, not comfort. Windows were little more than slits in the wall. Cold, stone floors and walls rarely kept in heat, and water had to be brought by the bucketful throughout the castle. Walls were built high to protect from advancing armies, and to provide needed lookout positions.\n\nFor detailed information, visit: http://www.medieval-castles.net/castle_architecture/index.htm\n\nThe simple stone and mortar architecture made repairs fairly easy to make. It was not uncommon for stones to be used over and over with each successive castle built on the same location. Cannons and gunpowder made the castle ineffective and these large structures evolved in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance to become manor homes and palaces.
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Kostnice looks like most other Gothic churches. But from the moment you enter the front door, you know that this is no ordinary church -- all of the decorations are made from human bones. No kidding. Frantisek Rint, the church's interior decorator, created crosses of bone, columns of bone, chalices of bone, and even a coat of arms in bone for the Schwarzenberg family, who owned the church.\n\nThe obvious questions are: Where did the bones come from, and why were they used for decorations? The first question is easier to answer: The bones came from victims of the 14th-century plague and the 15th-century Hussite wars; both events left thousands dead, who were buried in mass graves on the church's site. As the area developed, the bones were uncovered, and the local monks came up with this idea of how to put the bones to use.
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Depends on what you call a "Castle". Most medieval "castles" were built from stone. There were earlier, what could be more termed as "forts" constructed from wood etc. but as stone cutting came in to more common use and society moved in to the "castle age" which were really walled, fortified cities or "citadels" wood was no longer much of a defense against raiders. As to what was the "first" castle, I doubt if that can even be answered as such because a lot of them sprang up around the same time.
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Because they don't have a temple to sacrifice them in, anymore. The Temple of Solomon was destroyed by the Romans around the first century.
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he few roads that still existed were in a bad state, bridges were scarce, and brigands were common. For this reason during the Dark Ages, which lasted until about 1000 A.D., populations were tightly bound to the land surrounding the feudal lord's castle. People moved about only when there were festivals in other cities. These were the only occasions on which people could buy or look at different goods and have a chance to sell their own food or objects and fabrics made for sale. Fear controlled people’s lives and induced them to ask for protection from powerful warriors who had constructed well-defended castles, or from monasteries, which did not have soldiers but did have thick walls to hide behind. Life was hard, and , people thought little of clothing. Clothes were often made at home and were often rough and shapeless. Trousers, tunics and shawls were used to keep away the cold. The shawls were made of wool or fur and put over the shoulder. Most Europeans were dressed like today’s Benedictine monks, except for men’s trousers. Shoes were leather wrapped around the foot. Colors were plain; they were shades of gray, brown, dark blue and red. Conical hats were commonly worn.\n\nThis was a pyramidal society because the classes of people were in a shape of a pyramid.. with the kings and queens at the top of the pyramid (and were few in number) down to the peasants (who were many in number). In the middle were feudal lords, clerics, and others, such as vassals.\n\nTAILORING\nIn the Middle Ages, for the wealthy, most clothes were created by tailors. Some fabrics tailors used were : Burnet, perse, lincoln scarlet, kersey, russet, chalons, damask, and sandal. (Most of the population, however, made their clothing themselves).\n\nCLOTHING\nOften, kings and queens would wear crowns and brightly colored silks. Obviously, their clothing was very expensive and only they had enough money to afford such beautiful things.\n\nShoemakers and their spouses often wore borealis hats. The clothes they wore with that were woolen coats with fur-trimmed sleeves. Inside the coat was a woolen doublet.\n\nHoly orders, such as friars, wore cloaks with hoods and habits. On their clothes was a rope belt with wooden beads for counting prayers.\n\nFelt hats with stirrups and brown jackets were the daily wear of manor lords. Peasants' daily wear was simple: straw hats that they made themselves, linen shirts that they made themselves, leather flasks, hoses (pants), and pewter badges or good luck charms.