Middle Ages Review

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Across
  1. 1. These raiders were from Scandinavia
  2. 5. This was at the castle's entrance and contained the Portcullis.
  3. 7. Church punishment reserved for monarchs
  4. 9. Most powerful position in Frankish kingdom (2 words)
  5. 12. Event considered by historian to end the Middle Ages
  6. 14. Wrote the rules for the monks
  7. 15. Germanic invaders couldn't read so they were
  8. 17. He was successful in getting all the Franks in one kingdom
  9. 19. Charlesmagne's son (3 words)
  10. 20. Also known as the Black Death (2 words)
  11. 22. Bloodline starting from Charles the Hammer (2 words)
  12. 24. The Knight's apprentice
  13. 25. Code of conduct for a knight
  14. 27. The ceremony when one became a knight
  15. 28. Men who lived in monasteries and were literate
  16. 30. Both attacking and defending armies had these, though those shooting arrows from the castle had a great advantage.
  17. 31. Church tax - 10%
  18. 34. Religious leader
  19. 37. Large churches in urban areas
  20. 39. Siege engine that could launch missiles hundreds of yards
  21. 42. The most dangerous way for attackers to try to take a castle (2 words)
  22. 43. Traveling monks
  23. 44. Women who lived in convents
  24. 45. Agricultural practice that increased crop output (3 words)
  25. 46. Trenches surrounding castles protected them from siege towers and battering rams
  26. 47. Basic economic unit of the Middle Ages
  27. 48. Purpose was to use to scale castle walls (2 words)
Down
  1. 2. Pope who didn't only want spiritual power but also political power
  2. 3. The gift of land
  3. 4. Country where the Bubonic began
  4. 6. When one is no longer welcome in the church
  5. 8. Group blamed for the Black Death in Europe since it was believed they poisoned the wells
  6. 10. What you become when you begin to learn to be a knight
  7. 11. Where the Muslims were stopped from taking over Euorpe
  8. 13. Latin based languages
  9. 16. King involved in appointing Bishops (2 words)
  10. 18. People moving from urban to rural areas (2 words)
  11. 21. Grandfather to Charlemagne and hero of Christianity (2 words)
  12. 23. of Faith Led by monks to bring the church back to basics (3 words)
  13. 25. Also known as Charles the Great and ruled for 46 years
  14. 26. Person who received a fief
  15. 29. Bishops are selling priests positions
  16. 32. Unifying force of the Middle Ages
  17. 33. wrote the rules for the convents
  18. 35. Terms that stands for land for loyalty or protection
  19. 36. When all the people in the same occupation join together
  20. 38. Were dug beneath a castle wall to destabilize and topple it
  21. 40. Important religious ceremonies you have to have to reach salvation
  22. 41. Church law (2 words)