medieval crossword

3. the middle class, including merchants, industrialists, and professional people
5. the representative government that emerged. it was composed of two knights from every county, two people from every town, and all the nobles and bishops throughout England
9. in the Middle Ages, the ideal of civilized behavior that developed among the nobility; it was a code of ethics that knights were supposed to uphold
10. political and social order that developed during the Middle Ages when royal governments were no longer able to defend their subjects; nobles offered protection and land in return for service
13. the “Great Charter” of rights, which King John was forced to sign by the English nobles at Runnymede in 1215

1. a member of the heavily armored cavalry
2. the unwritten rules that determined the relationship between a lord and his vassal
4. a wealthy, powerful landowner
6. a peasant, or farmer, who is tied to the land and ruled by a lord
7. a uniform system of law that developed in England based on court decisions and on customs and usage rather than on written law codes; replaced law codes that varied from place to place
8. a heavy, wheeled plow with an iron plowshare
10. a grant of land made to a vassal
11. a man who served a lord in a military capacity
12. in medieval Europe, an agricultural estate that a lord ran and peasants worked