Middle Ages

4. Soldier who received honor and land in exchange for serving his lord
7. A large estate, often including farms and a village, ruled by a lord
10. Referring to the Middle Ages
11. Men who promised to raise and lead armies that would fight for their lord
14. Referst to a style of architecture containing stained-glass windows, sculptures, and masses of stonework
16. Important religious ceremonies administered by the clergy, these rights paved the way for achieving salvation (baptism - people became part of the Christian community)
18. A share of land given to vassals
19. of verdun A treaty that divided up the Holy Roman Empire into 3 regions for Charlemagne grandsons
21. plague Another name for the Black Death

1. death A disease that wiped out one-third of Europe's population between 1347 and 1351.
2. class A status of people between nobles and peasants who were merchants, traders, and craft workers
3. The 1st King of the Franks that became a Catholic christian in the 480's AD
5. Traders, Explorers, and conquerors from Scandinavia that disrupted European rule
6. A religious community of men (monks) who have given up their possessions to devote themselves to a life of prayer and worship (convent is equivalent for women/nuns)
8. The code of honorable conduct by which knights were supposed to live
9. Poor people who made their living as farmers and laborers
12. A medieval peasant legally bound to live on a lord's estate, could not lawfully leave the place where they were born, what their labor produced belonged to the lord, peasants, majority of population, owed taxes to the lord and the church
13. A social system that existed in Europe during the Middle Ages in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and the use of land in return.
15. People with the authority to perform religious services
17. Strongest Germanic people who united Europe after fall of Rome
20. An organization that included all the people who practiced a certain trade or craft