Across
- 6. The fall of this civilisation created a power vacuum in Europe
- 7. A fortified building used by nobles for defense
- 9. A religious traveler who visited holy sites
- 10. A promise of loyalty to a lord
- 11. Someone who pledged loyalty in exchange for land
- 13. The city targeted during the First Crusade
- 16. A journey to a holy place in medieval times
- 18. A soldier who fought in the Crusades was often called a ____
- 19. A peasant bound to the land in the feudal system
- 21. A noble who controlled land and granted it to vassals
- 22. The person at the top of the feudal hierarchy
- 24. The social system of the Middle Ages
- 25. A large church built in the Middle Ages
- 26. Increased awareness of this due to the Black Death
- 29. Pledged loyalty directly to the monarch in exchange for fiefs
Down
- 1. The Catholic ______ lost power because many priests died
- 2. Land granted to a vassal in exchange for service
- 3. Was Mecca impacted by the plague?
- 4. A holy war called by the Pope to reclaim Jerusalem
- 5. Another name for the Black Death
- 8. Gave produce in exchange for protection
- 12. These rose because of labour shortages after the plague
- 14. The estate that formed the basis of feudal life
- 15. One motivation for the Crusades was to gain forgiveness of ____
- 17. A man dedicated to the service of the Church
- 20. People who whipped themselves hoping God would end the plague
- 23. Moroccan historian Ibn ______ said the plague "swallowed up many good things of civilisation"
- 27. This increased between East and West as a result of the Crusades
- 28. Leader of the Catholic Church who called the First Crusade