The Middle Ages

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Across
  1. 2. another name for middle ages
  2. 5. a system of promises that governed the relationships between lords and vassals
  3. 7. region where Jesus had lived, preached, and died
  4. 8. an organization of priests that looked for and punished anyone in Spain suspected of secretly practicing their old religion
  5. 10. Refers to the shape of land in a region
  6. 11. Church Officials
  7. 12. communities of monks
  8. 14. document listing rights that the king could not ignore
  9. 15. a law that governed how the world operated
  10. 16. a large estate owned by a knight or lord
  11. 19. a group of people who dedicate their lives to religion and follow common rules
  12. 22. efforts to retake Spain from the Moors
  13. 24. religious men who lived apart from society in isolated communities
Down
  1. 1. A knight who promised to support a lord in exchange for land
  2. 2. a period that lasted from about 500 to 1500
  3. 3. the large landmass that includes Europe and Asia
  4. 4. religious ideas that oppose accepted church teachings
  5. 6. warriors who fought on horseback
  6. 7. invasion that began conflict between England and France
  7. 9. the highest law making body in the United Kingdom today
  8. 11. Europeans code of honorable behavior
  9. 13. cast out from the church
  10. 17. long series of wars between Christians and Muslims in southwest Asia
  11. 18. a deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351
  12. 20. people who belonged to religious orders but lived and worked among the general republic
  13. 21. short, three-line poem of 17 syllables that describe nature scenes
  14. 23. workers who were tied to the land on which they lived