Middle Ages Review

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Across
  1. 4. Men that pledged their life to religion and lived in monasteries; copied religious texts and helped the poor
  2. 7. Christian belief was so widespread during this time that historians sometimes call the Middle Ages the ________________.
  3. 9. Church officials like priests, popes, cardinals, and bishops
  4. 11. Social system of the Middle Ages based on loyalty and land
  5. 12. Catholic ritual needed for salvation/to get into heaven
  6. 13. Women that pledged their life to religion and lived in convents
  7. 15. Holy War; many occurred in the Middle Ages to take control of Jerusalem from the Muslims
  8. 17. 2nd highest level of feudalism; pledged loyalty and protection to the monarch in exchange for land
Down
  1. 1. Long journey to a Holy site
  2. 2. Leader of the Catholic Church
  3. 3. Top of the feudal system; owned all of the land and gave out fiefs to vassals
  4. 5. The Roman _______ Church gained a lot of power in the Middle Ages, so religion was important in daily life.
  5. 6. First Holy Roman Emperor; united the Franks under Catholicism
  6. 8. Mounted soldiers in feudalism; pledged loyalty to lord in exchange for land
  7. 10. A large Catholic church; Gothic ones were commonly built in the Middle Ages
  8. 14. Lowest level of feudalism pyramid; worked on a lord’s manor in exchange for protection and a small plot of land
  9. 16. Men that pledged their life to religion but chose to wander the earth and help the less fortunate; different from monks