You gave it exactly backwards. The castle is by definition the combination of residence and fortification. The purely military fortress only really developed after the medieval period.

In this case the movie version is closer to reality than your “realistic” version. Castles were not just built for defensibility. They have a strong representative aspect. Of course they made them as nice to live in as possible. The walls were covered in tapestries or wood panelling and many rooms were heated. For unheated rooms there were movable heaters (basically small portable fire pits).

Heres an example of a hall in a castle: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Très_Riches_Heures#/media/Datei:Les_Très_Riches_Heures_du_duc_de_Berry_Janvier.jpg

There were many different variants of jousting. While trying to knock each other off the horse was one of them, it wasn’t the standard. More commonly you would try to break your lance on the opponent, with different scoring depending on where your lance hits.

Do you have a source for gunpowder coming to Europe through spain in the 14th century? Gunpowder is mentioned in european texts from the 13th century (but not necessarily for use in weapons) and as far as i know it isn’t really clear how, where and when exactly it came to Europe.

It’s the statue on top of the Brandenburg gate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Gate It was built long before the nazis. Doesn’t change the fact that it’s a nazi propaganda poster though.

Eine Teilnahmebestätigung heißt nicht unbedingt, dass die Umfrage nicht anonym ist. Es könnte z.B. mitverfolgt werden, wer schon teilgenommen hat, während die Antworten trotzdem anonymisiert sind. Sicher ist das aber natürlich nicht.

Es gibt viele Überschriften über die man sich zu recht aufregen kann, aber das ist nun wirklich keine davon.

Mit dem richtigen Schein lassen sich auch in Deutschland Kugelbomben kaufen. Das “offenbar” bezieht sich aber doch hier auf den Verkauf selbst und nicht nur auf “illegal”, oder nicht?

Isn’t the draw weight of hunting bows much lower than that of historical war bows? I would guess they would do even less.

The text on the shell means “dud from England”

Vom Inhalt war auch nicht die Rede. Mir ging es hier nur um die dazugehörige Darstellung.

Bild 4 und 5 sind zeitlich vertauscht. Das 4. stellt schätze ich ca das 12. Jahrhundert da, das 5. dürfte aus einer Ausgabe des Tacuinum sanitatis aus dem 15. Jahrhundert sein.

They worked with an incorrect radius of the earth, so they didn’t stretch the known landmass. That’s the reason they thought they would find a way to india in the east.

It’s unlikely Columbus saw this globe before he sailed to America. It was finished around the same time he arrived.

Better look at the globe: https://globus1492.gnm.de/

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

Only the console versions had them.