Middle ages keywords

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Across
  1. 4. A person who received land from the kind or lord.
  2. 5. A field left empty for one year to allow it time to restore its nutrients.
  3. 7. This is how land was owned, and society was organized in the Middle Ages.
  4. 8. A legal document granted by the king that allowed people to run their own towns.
  5. 11. The first stage of becoming a master craftsman.
  6. 14. A person who worked on the land.
  7. 15. An area of land which the king granted a lord. In return, the lord promised to fight for the king.
  8. 16. Someone who has completed their training as an apprentice and can receive paid work with another master craftsman.
  9. 18. A professional soldier who fought on horseback.
Down
  1. 1. The land, and everything on it, owned by the lord.
  2. 2. and daub walls A building technique which involves woven twigs covered and plastered with clay.
  3. 3. A journeyman who has made a masterpiece and joined a guild.
  4. 6. The time when all fires had to be out in a medieval town.
  5. 9. An organization of master craftsmen that ensures high standards are maintained within their particular trade.
  6. 10. A formal pledge of loyalty and service from a vassal to their lord in the feudal system.
  7. 12. A peasant who paid rent and tax to the lord but could travel and marry as he pleased.
  8. 13. A person who belonged to the lord and famed his land.
  9. 17. field system System in which the land in the village was divided in three large fields and then divided into different strips, which were farmed by the serfs.