Middle Ages Crossword Puzzle

5. Germanic language that was highly influenced by Latin and Greek in it's vocabulary (we speak it in the USA).
7. Land given by a King to a Lord in exchange for military victories.
9. Unwritten code of gentlemanly conduct followed by Christian knights.
10. Historic battle in southern France where Charles Martel halted the Muslim advance into Europe.
13. Norsemen who migrated from Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, & Denmark) to Europe and Russia.
14. A person who received land and owed allegiance to a Lord (a Knight was a "vassal" to their Lord).
15. Traders from the Arabian Peninsula, began following the prophet Muhammed around 600 AD (Islam).
16. Common laborers who trraded food or labor (work) for protection from the Lord and his Knights.

1. Landless peasants who worked the land and could not legally leave the place where they were born.
2. Process of rotating crops between three field to give the land time to recover between plantings.
3. Viking sailor and navigator who reached North America (before Columbus) in 1000 AD.
4. Nomadic horsemen from Central Asia who settled in modern day Hungary.
6. Large landowner who lived in a manor house or castle (was granted land in exchange for military service).
8. Self-sufficient estate where peasants worked the land for their Lord in exchange for housing & protection.
9. fortified medieval building in the center of a manor or fief designed to protect the area from invasion
11. Germanic group who settled in England, contributed to the development of the English language.
12. Medieval social system based on rights and obligations which developed in response to invasions.