Medieval Europe Crossword - Chapman

2. People paid taxes to both their lord and the ______.
3. Piece of land given to a vassal.
7. Trial by _________ often determined the guilt or innocence of an accused person.
9. Main religion of Western Europe.
10. Business association for craftsmen and merchants
12. Muslim hero of the Crusades.
14. Also known as the black death.
16. Document signed by the King of England giving the nobles some authority over the King for the first time ever.
17. The Crusades, the 100 Years' War and the _________ helped to end feudalism.
19. A knight in training.
20. Farmworker who was legally a part of the land.
21. Book copied in the scriptorium at a monastery.
22. The person a vassal owed a duty of loyalty to.
23. Who was the most powerful man in Medieval Europe?
24. The Dark Ages began after the end of the _________.
25. The Church court used to torture and prosecute anyone suspected of being against the Church or its teachings.

1. A friar who gives away his property and lives by begging.
2. Code for knights
4. What Crusaders hope to control?
5. The king who had to beg the Pope to forgive him.
6. At the top of the feudal hierarchy.
8. Monks lived here
9. Charles the Great, King of the Franks
11. To take up the cross
13. One reason the Middle Ages are called the Dark Ages is because most people were _____________.
14. A well-known symptom of the plague.
15. head of the Catholic church.
18. One of the weapons which made knighthood obsolete.
20. The clergy can administer these, there are seven.