Middle Ages

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Across
  1. 4. She helped the French win the Hundred Years War
  2. 6. A style of architecture that uses flying buttresses
  3. 9. He was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in the year 800
  4. 10. This killed half of Europes population
  5. 12. Being kicked out of the Christian community
  6. 15. St Thomas Aquinas created this school of thought which blended religion and rational thinking
  7. 17. This empire collapsed in Western Europe and led to the Middle Ages
  8. 18. The city the Christians wanted to win over in the Crusades
  9. 20. Invaders from the Scandinavian peninsula
  10. 21. When kings would appoint the bishops
  11. 24. These people are bound to both their job and land
  12. 26. The Muslim leader that defeated the Christians in the 2nd and 3rd Crusades
  13. 27. This league was a union of trading cities
  14. 29. The pope who called for the Crusades
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  1. 1. The way lands were governed during the Middle Ages
  2. 2. St Benadict wrote a book on how to live in one of these
  3. 3. The protectors of the Manors
  4. 5. Admittance into these was limited, you had to be a master
  5. 7. A revolutionary way of increasing land production
  6. 8. A noble that Charlemagne would use to control his lands
  7. 11. The most powerful man in Western Europe
  8. 13. The most powerful of the Germanic kingdoms
  9. 14. The heavy plow invented in the Middle Ages
  10. 16. The dynasty that Charles Martel and Charlemagne belonged to
  11. 19. This document written under the reign of King John, ensured basic freedoms
  12. 20. Dante and Chaucer wrote in this, the everyday language
  13. 22. The nickname of the ruler who defeated the Muslims at the battle of Tours
  14. 23. The basic economic organization of Middle Ages Europe
  15. 25. Selling of church positions
  16. 28. He converted to Christianity after defeating his enemies, he also made his men covert