HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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Question
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old houses leaned so much they sometimes touched each other across the street.
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houses were cold, dark, and smoky.
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houses were made if brick or stone.
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many people lived in one house.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Medieval builders constructed castles and cathedrals largely from cut stone and used quicklime mortar-sometimes to hold the blocks in place, but more often to fill in gaps. Their solid blocks of stone had to fit together with tolerances of less than a quarter inch (5mm).
Detailed explanation-2: -Chalk limestone was widely used for building in the Upper Normandy (North France) long the history, being preserved more than 50 castles, churches, abbeys and cathedrals constructed in the X-XIV centuries.
Detailed explanation-3: -Solid brick houses (also known as double-brick and solid masonry houses) are built from either two layers of brick, or a layer of concrete block and an adjacent layer of brick on the exterior.