History Crossword

1. the highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices.
4. a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone.
7. the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
9. the spreading of something more widely.
10. the science or practice of drawing maps.
12. relating to the government or the public affairs of a country.
15. the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.

2. a Semitic language that first emerged in the 1st to 4th centuries CE. It is now the lingua franca of the Arab world.
3. the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land.
5. a person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended.
6. restoration of political unity to a place or group, especially a divided territory.
8. an instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements, typically of the altitudes of celestial bodies, and in navigation for calculating latitude.
11. the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.
13. the ability to read and write
14. a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes and sometimes infection of the lungs (pneumonic plague).