Across
- 7. Moscow prince who led rebellion against Mongol rule
- 8. Leader of the Eastern Church
- 10. Peasant who worked the land of a lord and could no lawfully leave it
- 12. Son of Vladimir that helped Kiev gain further power and wealth
- 16. Land granted by a lord to a vassal
- 18. landowner
- 20. Religious image used in practices by Eastern Christians
- 21. Germanic people who held power in the Roman province called Gaul
- 23. Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters
- 24. Church destroyed by mobs of rioters in 532 and rebuilt by Justinian
- 27. Russian prince who gained power by working with the Mongols
- 28. Staged battle for entertaining audiences and training knights
- 29. Religious community of men devoted to worship and prayer
Down
- 1. Grand prince of Kiev who converted to Orthodox Christianity in the 980s and made it the state religion
- 2. Warrior on horseback who promised to defend his lord's land in exchange for a fief
- 3. A Russian emperor
- 4. Church tax that is usually one-tenth of a peasant family's income
- 5. People from the forests north of the Black Sea
- 6. Period of European history from 500 to 1500
- 9. Dynasty Dynasty of Frankish rulers that lasted from 751 to 987
- 11. Powerful Frankish ruler from 768 to 814 who built a huge empire
- 13. Formal declaration that someone is no longer a member of the Church
- 14. Invented by Saints Cyril and Methodius, it used in most Slavic languages
- 15. Body of Roman law collected and organized around AD 534
- 17. Poet-musician at the castles and courts of Europe
- 19. Person receiving a fief from a lord
- 22. Code of behavior for knights, stressing ideals such as courage, loyalty, and devotion
- 25. Powerful ruler of the Byzantine Empire from 527 to 565
- 26. Lord's estate