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- 3. A series of wars fought by Christians and Muslims between 1096 and 12891CE over control of the Holy Land.
- 6. A group of people all working in the same trade (e.g. butchers, tailors, cobblers) who band together for their common interests
- 9. A code of conduct followed by knights in the Middle Ages
- 10. Disloyalty to the king or queen
- 12. A person who did not follow the Christian faith
- 14. An area, usually a village and surrounding lands, controlled by a lord
- 17. A medieval warrior of Europe, who typically pledged his services to a lord (sometimes a king) in exchange for a fief
- 19. Journeys taken by people to visit religious or holy places
- 20. A wealthy monarch or noble; under feudalism, one who exchanged fiefs for the sworn loyalty of vassals
- 22. Places where religious nuns and monks lived
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- 1. A term used by ancient Romans to describe someone living outside its borders. These included the Vandals, Goths, Visigoths, Huns and Ostrogoths
- 2. A peasant worker who worked the land for his lord
- 4. A disease that spreads very quickly
- 5. The Latin term meaning "middle ages"
- 7. Doing or saying something that challenged the teachings of the Roman Catholic church
- 8. A plot of land granted to a vassal by a lord in return for the vassal's loyal support
- 9. A weapon that worked like a giant slingshot; used to throw large objects/fire over city walls.
- 11. A person from Normandy, France
- 13. Countries where Christianity was the religion of the people
- 15. The political and economic system in the Middles Ages
- 16. A way of organising people or groups of things so that the most important is at the top, with the others ranked underneath in decreasing order of importance.
- 18. Ages Period of time between 500CE and 1500CE
- 21. Ages The name often given to the early ages Middle Ages, the period of European history from the end of the Roman Empire to about 1500CE