Glossary Terms

4. A large estate owned a noble, which he would divide into smaller portions of land.
7. Women who devote their lives to worshipping god.
9. 10% of person's income paid to the church.
12. A young boy usually up to about 14 years old who was training to become a knight.
13. A code of conduct that all knights follow.
14. A teenager over 14 years old who was in the final of their knight training.
15. Men who devote their lives to worshipping god.

1. The enclosed part of the castle inside the walls.
2. The old English word for mound or dirt.
3. A series of military conquests after the holy land.
5. People who made money through trading goods.
6. The lower class of society in Medieval Europe, often farmers.
8. People who were bound to work the land of their lord in return for a small amount of land to feed their family.
10. A type of ruling system based on lad usage where rulers own all the land and allow others to occupy and use it in return for taxes, money, goods and services.
11. People who are free to choose whom they worked for, and were not tied to land under medieval serfdom.