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- 3. Scandinavian pirates who terrorized coastal villages after the decline of the Frankish rule
- 7. The acts that deprives someone of membership in the Church
- 8. A group of people who live according to a religious rule
- 9. People given priestly authority by the Church
- 10. The series of campaigns, ending in A.D. 1492, by which Christian armies drove Muslim rule out of Spain
- 13. The battle between Harold and William,Duke of Normandy in France, to become the king of England
- 16. The bishop of Constantinople
- 18. A court established by the Roman Catholic Church in A.D. 1524 to investigate people who may have strayed from the Roman Catholic faith and to strengthen the power of the Church
- 19. A religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ
- 20. A long poem usually about warriors or heroes
- 21. The first stage in becoming a knight (starting at the age of seven)
- 23. A feudal oath of loyalty sworn to a lord in exchange for an award of land
- 24. The right of people not to be imprisoned unlawfully
- 25. People who lived and worked on the land belonging to a lord or vassal
- 26. Military expeditions from Christian Europe to Palestine, between the 11th and 13th century
- 28. A list of rights written by England's nobility and signed by King John
- 29. An association of people sharing a trade or craft, intended to control the quality and quantity of their production and to protect their interests
- 30. A group of rpresentatives with some powers of government
- 32. A large feudal estate, paticulary in Medieval Europe
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- 1. One who is a non-believer in respect to some religion, especially Islam or Christianity
- 2. A group of people organized or classified by rank and authority
- 4. Arc A French peasant girl, from the town of Domrémy, who lead the French to victory at the War of Orléans
- 5. A series of wars between France and England that lasted about 116 years
- 6. A highly trained, mounted warrior in the service of a noble during the European Middle Ages
- 8. A government elected by the people to represent their interests
- 11. The political and social system created in the Middle Ages
- 12. The deliverance of the soul from the penalties of sin
- 13. A disease that struck Western Europe in the mid- 1300s, in an outbreak known as the Black Death
- 14. A tenth of one's income contributed voluntarily to the Church
- 15. A military leader who united Muslims to fight the Christian in Palestine during the 12th century
- 17. A powerful noble who owned land
- 22. The castle and estate of a feuadal lord
- 27. The second stage in becoming a knight (starting at the age of thriteen through fourteen)
- 31. Places where religious follwers called monks practiced a life of prayer and worship