Middle Ages Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. land around Palestine that is significant to Jews, Christians, and Muslims
  2. 7. a time period ranging from 500 to 1500 CE
  3. 8. a knight who received land in exchange for supporting a noble
  4. 11. the belief from Thomas Aquinas that God created a law to govern how the world operated
  5. 12. to remove someone from the church
  6. 14. a social system in which nobles governed land farmed by peasants
  7. 17. a plot of land
  8. 18. the process of the Christian kingdoms taking Spain back from the Moors
  9. 21. a man who was dedicated to his religion and lived in an isolated community
  10. 23. series of wars between Muslims and Christians over control of Palestine
  11. 24. an organization of priests that punished anyone in Spain (and later Portugal) who was not Christian
  12. 25. a community of monks
  13. 28. related to the Middle Ages
Down
  1. 1. Church Officials
  2. 2. a conflict between England and France about who should be king that lasted over 100 years
  3. 3. leader of the Franks who united many European tribes in a single empire
  4. 4. the qualities expected of a knight, such as courage, honor, and courtesy
  5. 5. associations formed by groups of specialized workers
  6. 6. the Great Charter that required the King of England to respect certain rights of the people
  7. 9. one of the first missionaries who spread Christianity to Ireland
  8. 10. A French noble who conquered England in the Norman Invasion and
  9. 13. a law-making group that was formed to advise the King of England and limit his power
  10. 15. a large estate that was owned by a lord or knight
  11. 16. ideas that went against the teachings of the church
  12. 19. someone who lived + worked on a manor that could not leave without the lord’s permission
  13. 20. a French girl who inspired the French troops during the Hundred Years’ War
  14. 22. soldiers who fought on horseback
  15. 26. the concept of feudalism
  16. 27. a deadly plague that killed roughly 25 million Europeans between 1347 and 1351