The Middle Ages Review Puzzle

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Across
  1. 6. practice of buying high positions in the church
  2. 7. era also known as the Early Middle Ages
  3. 9. a right to use the land
  4. 13. Englishman who claimed the crown of England by force
  5. 14. land was exchanged for military service and obligations
  6. 16. religious wars
  7. 18. the Magna Carta created this form of government in England
  8. 20. led the Battle of Orleans; declared a heretic
Down
  1. 1. unifying force during the Middle Ages
  2. 2. protected nobles' freedoms and outlined basic rights of all English people
  3. 3. the goal of the Crusades
  4. 4. person who received a grant of land from a lord
  5. 5. the loyalty owed by a vassal to his feudal lord
  6. 8. land granted by a lord in return for loyalty and service
  7. 10. animal blamed for brining the plague across continents
  8. 11. religious people reasonable for education and providing for the needy
  9. 12. reason for constructing a castle
  10. 15. an effort to strengthen the church by stamping out practices and teachings that opposed church doctrines
  11. 16. king who rule restored order, learning, and unity to western Europe during the 800s
  12. 17. nickname given to the plague
  13. 18. first leader to be named the Holy Roman Emperor
  14. 19. peasant who could not leave the land without the lord's permission