Middle Ages

3. a deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351
7. a knight who promised to support a lord in exchange for land
8. what Europeans called their code of honorable behavior for knights
11. communities of monks
13. a period that lasted from about 500 to about 1500
14. warriors who fought on horseback
15. large landmass that includes both Europe and Asia
18. a long conflict between England and France
20. the large estate owned by a knight or a lord
21. a long series of wars between Christians and Muslims in Southwest Asia
22. religious men who lived apart from society in isolated communities
23. a short, 3 lined poems of 17 symbols that describe nature scenes
24. refers to the shape and elevation of land in a region
26. what historians call a system of promises that governed the relationships between lords and vassels
27. another name for the Middle Ages

1. church officials
2. efforts to retake Spain from the Moors
4. workers who were tied to the land on which they lived
5. a law that governed how the world operated
6. cast out from the church
9. was the region where Jesus had lived, preached, and died
10. religious ideas that oppose accepted church teachings
12. an organization of priests that looked for and punished anyone in Spain suspected of secretly practicing their old religion
16. the document listing rights that the king could not ignore
17. people who belonged to religious orders but lived and worked among the general public
19. a group of people who dedicate their lives to religion and follow common rules
25. the largest law making in the United Kingdom today