Across
- 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.
Down
- 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.