Across
- 2. Vassal had this type of authority in his fief
- 4. Revived during Middle Ages, led to increase in towns & cities
- 6. Men who served in heavily armed cavalry, became the backbone of the aristocracy
- 7. Punishment for crimes must be based on these (not random)
- 8. Cities & towns became important centers for this because of trade
- 11. Agricultural estate run by a lord and worked by peasants
- 12. Peasants bound legally to the land they worked
- 13. Magna Carta limited king's power to punish people outside of what?
- 14. Replaced law codes which varied from place to place
- 17. Political & social system in which lords gave protection & land to their vassals in exchange for their service
Down
- 1. Christian re-conquest of Spain
- 3. New form of representative government developed in Middle Ages
- 5. Economic system in which serfs worked land owned by vassals of a lord
- 7. Magna carta strengthened idea of this type of government
- 8. Gave written recognition to feudal custom of mutual rights & responsibilities between king & vassals
- 9. Men who received land in exchange for providing service to his lord
- 10. Type of law based on court decisions, customs & usage instead of written codes
- 15. Christians spent hundreds of years trying to regain control of Spain from these people
- 16. Grant of land from a lord to his vassal
- 17. Type of contract which was an agreement between a vassal and his lord