Middle Ages Crossword

2. church officials
4. a system of promises that governed the relationship between lords and vassals.
7. a law that governed how the world operated.
10. the large landmass that includes both Europe and Asia
12. communities of monks that were built all over Europe.
15. religious men who lived apart from society in isolated communities
16. the highest law-making body in the UK today.
17. people who belonged to religious orders but lived and worked among the public.
18. a region where Jesus had lived, preached, and died.
19. the large estate owned by a knight or lord.
20. religious ideas that opposed accepted church teachings.

1. a group of people who dedicate their lives to religion and follow common rules.
3. a document listing right that the king could not ignore.
5. a deadly plague that swept across Europe between 1347-1351.
6. soldiers, warriors who fought on horseback.
8. a knight who promised to support a lord in exchange for land.
9. cast out of the church.
11. a period that lasted from about 500 to 1500.
13. workers who were tied to the land on which they lived.
14. a long series of wars between Christians and Muslims in Southwest Asia.