Across
- 2. everyday language of the people
- 5. six foot long bow that could rapidly fire arrows with enough force to pierce armor
- 7. referring to the Middle Ages in European History
- 8. mounted warrior
- 10. code of conduct for knights
- 12. economic system of the Middle Ages that was built around large estates or manors where serfs worked and got protection
- 13. led the French against the English in the Hundred's Year War
- 16. Scandinavian people whose sailors raided Europe
- 18. peasant bound to the lord's land
- 19. wandering poet or singer
- 20. the Great Charter signed by King John of England; it limited royal power
- 22. ran the manor and had children
- 23. a church court set up to try people accused of heresy
Down
- 1. claim that the medieval pope had authority over all secular rulers
- 3. the fall of this Empire led to feudalism
- 4. building where monks lived
- 6. an epidemic of the bubonic plague that ravaged Europe
- 9. a lord who was granted a fief in exchange for service and loyalty to a greater lord
- 11. the European Christians driving the Muslims from Spain
- 14. what spread the Black Death
- 15. estate or land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and military service or knights
- 17. exchange of pledges between lords and vassals
- 21. loosely organized system of government in which local lords governed their own lands but owed military service to a greater lord