middle ages

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  1. 4. a women of nobility
  2. 5. a continent to the north of Africa, connected to Asia in western Russia
  3. 6. a knights code of behavior
  4. 7. in the Middle Ages, a way to manage feudal lands
  5. 9. Europe second longest river
  6. 12. an epidemic spread to humans by fleas from rates
  7. 15. king of the Franks who was later crowned emperor of the former Roman Empire in western Europe
  8. 16. a trading route that connected Europe and lands of the former Roman Empire with China
  9. 18. the longest river in Europe
  10. 19. a community of monks
  11. 20. a group of craftspeople or merchants who are united by a common interest
  12. 22. an English charter that limited royal power
  13. 24. a women who devotes her life to her religion and lives in a convent
  14. 25. a mountain range that separates Eastern Europe from Asia
  15. 29. the main river of the busiest inland system of waterways in the western part of Europe
  16. 30. pope who issued a plea to free the holey land Palestine from the Turks, launching the crusade
  17. 31. a northwestern region of Europe; includes the nation of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway
  18. 33. Venetian merchant, world traveler, and writer who remains in china as a quest for 17 years
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  1. 1. a social, political, and economic system used in the Middle Ages
  2. 2. a Roman province on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea
  3. 3. a person who lived on and farmed feudal land
  4. 8. in the Middle Ages, a system whereby the planting of crops on manor lands alternates between three fields
  5. 10. a man who devotes hi life to religion and lives in a monastery
  6. 11. a period in European history that lasted from about 500 to about 1500
  7. 13. a federal warrior trained and prepared to fight on horsebac
  8. 14. king of England
  9. 17. a community of nuns
  10. 21. a book made in 1086 that helped king William keep track of all of the people and property in England
  11. 23. an epidemic of an often fatal disease
  12. 26. major military expedions by Christians to win back control of Palestine (holy land)and protect the Byzantine Empire
  13. 27. The Conqueror Norman king who conquered England in 1066
  14. 28. a person who teaches a religion to people with diffident beliefs
  15. 32. a king or queen who is supreme leader