Across
- 2. the ideal of civilized behavior that developed among the nobility as a code of ethics
- 3. unwritten rules that determined a relationship between a lord and his vassal
- 6. agricultural estate where a lord ruled and peasants worked
- 7. a middle class including merchants, tradespeople and industrialists
- 11. "Great Charter" - humanity's first guarantee of rights by a government to its subjects
- 12. a political and social order that developed in the Middle Ages when royal governments could no longer defend their subjects
- 13. a uniform system of laws that developed in England based on customs and usage rather than written legal codes
- 15. a wealthy, powerful landowner
Down
- 1. a man who served a lord in a military capacity
- 4. heavy, wheeled plow with an iron plowshare
- 5. a member of a heavily armored cavalry
- 8. a peasant legally bound to the land on which they worked, providing services such as labor and rent to their lord
- 9. a social or political class
- 10. representative government that emerged in 13th century England
- 14. grant of land made to a vassal in the feudal system where the vassal would hold authority