Across
- 2. Trained mounted warrior who served a lord in exchange for land or payment.
- 6. Political and social system in which land was exchanged for loyalty and military service.
- 7. Economic system in which people lived and worked on a mostly self-sufficient estate.
- 9. People who received land from a lord in exchange for loyalty and service.
- 11. Mock battles in which knights practiced their fighting skills and competed for prizes.
Down
- 1. Land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for service.
- 3. Traveling poets and musicians who performed songs about love, heroes, and chivalry.
- 4. Contract Agreement that established the duties and responsibilities between a lord and a vassal.
- 5. Code of conduct that required knights to be brave, loyal, honorable, and protective of the weak.
- 8. Large estate that included the lord’s home, farmland, villages, and the people who worked there.
- 10. Peasants who were legally bound to a lord’s land and could not leave without permission.