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- 2. Usually a plot of land granted to a vassal by a lord in return for the vassal’s loyal support
- 3. A medieval peasant who worked on the manor of a feudal lord
- 8. Doing or saying something regarded by the medieval Catholic Church (and by some other faiths) as being in serious conflict with its teachings
- 9. letting The deliberate cutting of someone to cause bleeding; this medieval practice, often performed by barbers, was seen as a treatment and cure for illness
- 10. A system of mutual obligation used in the Middle Ages to organise politics, society and the economy
- 12. Someone who rules an empire/group of countries
- 14. 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
- 15. A wealthy monarch or noble, under feudalism, one who exchanged fiefs for the sworn loyalty of vassals
- 16. Under feudalism, a person who offered his loyalty and service to a lord in return for his protection and the granting of a fief
- 17. A medieval warrior of Europe, who typically pledged his services to a lord (sometimes the king) in exchange for a fief
- 18. The blackened, swollen, pus-filled lymph nodes evident on the body of someone with the bubonic plague
- 20. source A piece of historical evidence that was created at the time being studied
- 21. Another name for Middle Ages
- 23. Land The territory in today’s Middle East now mostly made up of Israel and parts of Palestine
- 24. source A piece of historical evidence that was created after the time being studied
- 26. A term used to describe the spread of an infectious disease across an entire country, a large region, or even worldwide
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- 1. A journey made by someone who travels to a place of religious significance in the hope this will see prayers answered or sins forgiven
- 4. In medieval times under the system known as feudalism, peasants were the lowest members of society; peasants were poor and had very few rights; they often lived on feudal manors working for feudal lords as farmers and labourers
- 5. A group of radical Christians during the Black Death who whipped themselves to gain God’s forgiveness for their sin
- 6. Deeply religious
- 7. A group of countries and/or areas, ruled by a central power or leader
- 11. A term first used by ancient Romans to describe someone living outside their borders; an uncivilised person
- 13. A type of government ruled by a king or queen
- 19. A pre-set view about someone or something that is not altered by the presentation of facts and opinions to the opposite
- 22. Death A deadly plague that spread across Asia, Europe and Africa during the fourteenth century
- 25. A series of wars fought by Christians and Muslims between 1096 and 1291 CE over control of the Holy Land