Across
- 1. King of the Franks and creation of the papal states
- 2. A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection
- 6. The first Frankish King
- 7. Protectors of the land, bound by the chivalric code
- 9. The precious metal that Charlemagne used to support paper money
- 10. a bishop of the highest degree
- 11. Economic system during the Middle Ages that revolved around self-sufficient farming manors.
- 12. a young boy at age 7, entrusted to a knight for service
- 13. The main form of work back in the dark ages
- 15. Advise and elect the Pope
Down
- 1. Like Father Tharp, an individual in charge of one or two churches
- 3. Often the only book people had read to them in a lifetime
- 4. was founder of the Holy Roman Empire (760) and considered the ideal ruler
- 5. A type of handwriting that helped educate millions
- 8. a person bound to the land for all eternity
- 9. a young teen at age 14, entrusted to be the direct assistant to a knight
- 14. A code that knights had to live by