Across
- 2. old term to represent years before the birth of Jesus Christ
- 5. religion that includes the Catholic faith
- 9. series of trade routes between Asia and the Roman Empire
- 11. Empire that spread across Europe with a decline date of 476CE
- 12. to give or donate
- 13. empire established in central Europe and controlled by the Catholic Church
- 15. belief in one god
- 18. 100 years
- 19. social structure of the Middle Ages with the majority of people at the bottom
- 20. religion that started in 622CE in Mecca
- 21. where Spain and Portugal are and site of Reconquista
- 22. City in the Byzantium Empire that is the connection between Europe and Asia
Down
- 1. country on the Iberian Peninsula that was the Kingdoms of Castille and Aragon
- 3. series of Holy Wars over the lands of Palestine
- 4. meaning of Reconquista
- 6. belief in more than one god
- 7. events in the order in which they happened
- 8. person who practices the Islamic faith
- 10. a period of time in history that has a common characteristic (not era)
- 14. people of the North that attacked European cities in the 9th-11th centuries
- 16. newer term for tracking years that work like negative numbers
- 17. time that began with the fall of the Roman Empire and ended with Columbus' Voyage to the New World