Across
- 4. rulers expected to keep order and to provide protection for their vassals
- 5. was Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565
- 6. where trade expanded and towns becoming larger
- 8. the Conqueror the first Norman king of England
- 9. a break with Constantinople and the formation of the Papal States
- 10. privileged military status after training as a page and squire
- 12. ran the local manors
- 13. Byzantine empress by marriage to emperor Justinian
- 16. out
- 17. series of religious wars initiated
- 18. rural communities, with a small elite of aristocrats dominating
- 19. a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England
- 20. a major uprising across large parts of England
Down
- 1. a storage pond which filled up as the tide came in
- 2. a group of buildings that were surrounded by a huge wall and a moat designed to keep
- 3. member of the Carolingian dynasty
- 7. a historiographical construction describing the 781-year period in the history
- 11. a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s
- 14. highly skilled warriors.
- 15. if a person rejected the official teachings of the Church