Middle Ages

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  1. 3. The body of all people ordained for religious duties, especially in the Christian Church.
  2. 6. A person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying merchandise to a particular trade.
  3. 7. An estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service.
  4. 8. belonging to a hereditary class with high social or political status; aristocratic.
  5. 10. The daughter of a monarch
  6. 12. A professional joker or “fool” at a medieval court, typically wearing a cap with bells on it and carrying a mock scepter.
  7. 15. A unit of land, originally a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and lands rented to tenants.
  8. 17. A member of a religious community of women, especially a cloistered one, living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
  9. 18. A sovereign head of state, especially a king, queen, or emperor.
  10. 19. A holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance.
  11. 20. The action of buying and selling goods and services
  12. 22. The political, military, and social system in medieval Europe, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
  13. 24. In the Middle Ages a man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armor.
  14. 26. The principal church of a diocese, with which the bishop is officially associated.
  15. 28. The female ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth.
  16. 29. Someone or something having power, authority, or influence; a master or ruler.
  17. 30. A member of a religious community of men typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
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  1. 1. A deep, wide ditch surrounding a castle, fort, or town, typically filled with water and intended as a defense against attack.
  2. 2. A bridge, especially one over a castle's moat, that is hinged at one end so that it may be raised to prevent people's crossing or to allow vessels to pass under it.
  3. 3. The medieval knightly system with its religious, moral, and social code.
  4. 4. Is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility.
  5. 5. A large building, typically of the medieval period, fortified against attack with thick walls, battlements, towers, and in many cases a moat.
  6. 9. A poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries).
  7. 10. The son of a monarch.
  8. 11. An agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate.
  9. 13. In a sport or game a series of contests between a number of competitors, who compete for an overall prize.
  10. 14. Each of a series of medieval military expeditions made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
  11. 16. A defensive wall of a castle or walled city, having a broad top with a walkway and typically a stone parapet.
  12. 21. An object surviving from an earlier time, especially one of historical or sentimental interest.
  13. 23. A nobleman of high rank
  14. 24. A country, state, or territory ruled by a king or queen.
  15. 25. The system by which coats of arms and other armorial bearings are devised, described, and regulated.
  16. 27. A compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions.
  17. 31. The male ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth.