Across
- 2. A political and economic system in which large landholders or lords gave protection to people in return for their service to the landholder
- 3. A feudal oath of loyalty sworn to a lord in exchange for an award of land
- 6. Qualities such as honor, courtesy, loyalty, and fair treatment of the weak, idealized by the knights in the Middle Ages
- 7. Peasants; members of the lowest feudal class, bound to the land and owned by a lord
- 9. A Japanese code of ethics involving courage, loyalty, and commitment to military life
- 11. Armed, mounted soldiers of the feudal period who give military service to lords
Down
- 1. An association of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages
- 2. Large feudal estates, particularly in medieval Europe
- 4. Groups of people organized or classified by rank or authority
- 5. People who receive land and protection from a feudal lord in return for loyalty to that lord
- 8. The castle and estate of a feudal lord
- 10. An expression of public honor or respect; in feudalism, the ceremonial recognition of allegiance to a lord shown by a vassal