Medieval Ages Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant
  2. 4. a fee or feud held of a feudal lord; a tenure of land subject to feudal obligations
  3. 5. the series of wars between England and France, 1337–1453, in which England lost all its possessions in France except Calais.
  4. 7. the sum of the ideal qualifications of a knight, including courtesy, generosity, valor, and dexterity in arms
  5. 8. a member of the dominant people of Hungary
  6. 13. a group of legal practices and traditions originating in judges' decisions in earlier cases and in social customs and having the same force in most of the U.S. as if passed into law by a legislative body
  7. 15. having impossibly ideal conditions especially of social organization
  8. 16. a usually large estate
  9. 18. a member of the Germanic people who conquered England in the 5th century a.d.
  10. 19. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Middle Ages
  11. 20. Individualistic and critical spirit, and emphasis on secular concerns characteristic of the Renaissance
  12. 21. the Inquisition in Spain, under state control from 1480 to 1834, marked by the extreme severity and cruelty of its proceedings in the 16th century.
  13. 22. People originating from Northern Europe
  14. 23. a servant or laborer of olden times who was treated as part of the land worked on and went along with the land if it was sold
Down
  1. 1. a charter of liberties to which the English barons forced King John to give his assent in June 1215 at Runnymede
  2. 3. a system of political organization (as in Europe during the Middle Ages) in which a vassal served a lord and received protection and land in return
  3. 6. a rate of interest that is very high or higher than the usual rate
  4. 8. a member of a pastoral people now living chiefly in Mongolia
  5. 9. of, relating to, or regulated by the state rather than the church
  6. 10. a person chosen as a special guardian or supporter
  7. 11. A series of wars between Europeans and Muslims for the land of Jerusalem.
  8. 12. a member of a West Germanic tribal confederacy
  9. 14. a disease spread by fleas on rodents in Europe, with symptoms such as high fever and weakness
  10. 17. the period of European history between the 14th and 17th centuries marked by a flourishing of art and literature inspired by ancient times and by the beginnings of modern science