Middle Ages

2. Ages the era of European history between the Fall of Rome and the Middle Ages; Germanic tribes ruled Europe
3. the country from which the Bubonic Plague is believed to have come from to Europe
6. peasants who made up 97% of France's population
7. Carta important in the development of law because it was the beginning of representative democracy and constitutional government
10. after the kings, these were the most powerful people in the feudal system
11. a person who pledged support to a lord in return for land and protection
14. city captured by Crusaders at the end of the first Crusade
15. people who protected the manors and the king
16. French woman famous for having been burned at the stake during the Hundred Years War
17. this was the basis for wealth in a feudal society
19. the head of the Holy Roman Catholic Church
20. the king forced to sign the Magna Carta

1. the battle that helped William the Conqueror become the King of England
4. the holy wars waged by European Christians against Muslims to gain control of the Holy Land
5. The Spanish _______________ was used by the church to accuse people of heresy (speaking against the church)
7. at the end of the Crusades, these people controlled the Holy Land
8. the king of the Franks who expanded the empire over Western Europe
9. the Bubonic Plague is widely thought to have been spread by ______________ living on rats
12. another name for the Bubonic Plague
13. the code of conduct for knights
18. the only language Bibles were printed in