Across
- 10. a knight's code of conduct
- 11. work and produce the serf paid the lord
- 12. Northmen or Norsemen of Scandinavia who invaded Europe
- 13. mock battles
- 15. term used to describe the time period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance
- 18. term used to describe Europe in the Middle Ages
- 19. inherited the right to rule
Down
- 1. governments led by a king
- 2. knights, kings, dukes, counts, barons and even bishops who had large landed estates and considerable political power
- 3. A 14 year-old who looked after his lord's horse, armor and often he accompanied his lord into battle
- 4. official ceremony in which a squire became a knight
- 5. nobles who served the lord as a mounted soldier in armor
- 6. consisted of people who held political, economic and social power
- 7. political, economic and social system during the Middle Ages
- 8. a 7 year-old boy who was sent to live with another lord or knight for training
- 9. feudal farm
- 14. land loaned to a vassal by a king
- 16. poor peasants
- 17. king divided the land among powerful lords