Chapter 21 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. a weapon that allowed archers to fire arrows
  2. 5. a political and social system in which a vassal receives protection from a lord in exchange for obedience and service
  3. 6. a warrior in medieval Europe
  4. 7. a code of conduct for knights
  5. 12. a wealthy, town-dwelling merchant during the Middle Ages
  6. 13. a nobleman who received land from a king in medieval feudal society
  7. 16. a group of representatives who shared power with the English monarch
  8. 17. the religious leaders who oversee ceremonies and deliver teachings of the Christian Church
Down
  1. 1. a Christian religious community
  2. 2. law a system of law established in England to make sure people received equal treatment
  3. 4. a group of craftspeople that helped protect and improve the working conditions of its members
  4. 7. to change one’s religion
  5. 8. a person, usually a lesser nobleman, who received land and protection from a feudal lord in exchange for obedience and service
  6. 9. a towering church built during the Middle Ages; often the place from which a bishop ruled
  7. 10. a period in history that spanned from the A.D. 500s to the 1500s; from the Lation medium (middle) and aevum (age)
  8. 11. plague a disease that killed more than a third of Europe’s population during the Middle Ages
  9. 14. a self-contained world located on land belonging to a lord
  10. 15. a person who lived and worked on the private land of a noble or medieval lord