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