Across
- 2. a knight or a noble who promised to support a lord or king in exchange for land
- 6. the leader of the Roman Catholic Church; past and present
- 7. a social structure system of promises that governed relationships between lords and vassals
- 11. workers who were tied to the land/manor on which they lived; had little freedom
- 12. warriors who fought on horseback
- 13. a large estate owned by a knight or lord
Down
- 1. a disease; in Medieval Europe, this killed half the population in the 1300s
- 3. had little opportunities in Medieval Europe; could get married or become a nun
- 4. communities of monks
- 5. a piece of land gifted from a lord to a vassal
- 8. The Black ______ or Bubonic Plague devastated medieval Europe.
- 9. a religious man devoted to study and solitude; Roman Catholic ________s helped spread Christianity through Europe
- 10. the code of honorable behavior for knights to follow