Europe Middle Ages
Across
- 1. also known as mock battles
- 3. also known as landowner
- 6. also known as important religious ceremonies
- 7. the medieval knightly system with its religious, moral, and social code
- 10. Germanic people from the Roman province of Gaul
- 11. mounted horsemen who pledged to defend their lord's lands in exchange for fiefs
- 12. also known as religious officials
- 14. people who could not lawfully leave the place where they were born
- 17. religious communities the church built to adapt to rural conditions.
- 18. a period in time that spanned the years from 500 to 1500
- 20. what the Roman Empire of the German Nation was later known as
- 24. under the feudal system, they could inherit an estate from their husband
- 25. also called church law
Down
- 1. a weapon that looked like a giants sling shot and propelled objects up to a distance of 980 feet
- 2. traveling poet-musicians at the castles and courts of Europe
- 4. the person a lord is granting land to
- 5. a lord's estate
- 8. Scandinavian seafaring pirates and traders who raided and settled in many parts of northwestern Europe in the 8th–11th centuries
- 9. Pepin the Short's son named Charles who was also known as this
- 13. the mother of two kings called Richard and John
- 15. land that a lord granted to vassals
- 16. also known as church tax
- 19. a ceremony is which kings and nobles appointed church officials
- 21. a family that would rule the Franks from 751 to 987
- 22. a contraption that moved slowly on wheels and sheltered soldiers from falling arrows
- 23. a line of hereditary rulers of a country