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The castle gate that crushed armies.
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• Footage courtesy: Medieval Times Discovered (@MedievalTimesDiscovered) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMnt19KoRoc

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00:00Assaulting Greek gateway trenches
00:02triggered complex defensive mechanisms,
00:04including narrow corridors and pivoting barriers.
00:08How did ancient Greek architects
00:10design massive stone corridors
00:12that locked charging attackers inside a fatal trap?
00:16Instead of facing a static barrier,
00:19attackers met pivoting wooden gates
00:20that swung inward to disrupt momentum.
00:23Defensive architectural bottlenecks
00:25channeled attackers into confined killing zones
00:28where defenders deployed missiles from above.
00:31Heavy timber pivot gates swung outward
00:34to crush trapped infantry squads against the stone walls.
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