Across
- 2. Rural areas where most people lived.
- 5. Objects used for farming and daily work.
- 7. Society Society divided into social groups.
- 8. Buying and selling goods between places.
- 10. Payments peasants made, often in crops or products.
- 12. Promise of loyalty made to a lord or king.
- 14. Groups that paid taxes and had fewer rights.
- 15. Rules that organized society and were controlled by rulers.
- 16. Related to the countryside.
- 22. Privileged group that owned land and held political power.
- 23. Safety provided by nobles to peasants.
- 24. Basic economic unit of feudalism.
- 25. Movement between places, often dangerous in the Middle Ages.
- 26. Urban centers that were small during feudalism.
- 27. Attack by foreign peoples on European territories.
- 29. Military force controlled by the king.
- 30. An economy based mainly on agriculture and farming.
Down
- 1. Crops collected by peasants.
- 3. Monarchy – System where kings shared power with nobles and clergy.
- 4. Ruler of a kingdom who claimed to govern in the name of God.
- 6. People who worked the land and formed most of the population.
- 7. Divisions of society based on birth.
- 9. Historical period in Europe between Ancient and Modern times.
- 11. Main source of wealth and power in feudal society.
- 13. Groups that did not pay taxes and had special rights.
- 17. Social position was decided in feudal society by one's ______.
- 18. Europe The part of Europe where feudalism developed.
- 19. Powerful nobles with large lands and independence.
- 20. Main product of the feudal economy.
- 21. Producing almost everything needed without trade.
- 24. A political, economic, and social system in Western Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries.
- 28. Important members of the Church with great power.
- 31. Religious institution with strong influence over medieval society.