Across
- 1. At what age would a nobleman's son begin training to become a knight?
- 3. What is the name of the nomadic Arabs who herded sheep, camels, and goats in ever moving tribes?
- 7. What city was the Prophet Muhammad born in?
- 9. In the first year of the Hundred Years War, which English King laid claim to the French crown?
- 12. In the second crusade, which European King was the last leader to withdraw his forces?
- 16. What was a monopolistic group controlling a single occupation?
- 18. In which crusade did knights raze Constantinople, on behalf of Venice?
- 19. What was the head of a covenant called?
- 23. What is Geoffrey Chaucer noted for writing?
- 25. Who was the most important scholastic thinker in the late A.D. 1200's?
- 28. How many crusades were there in all?
- 29. The Seljuk Turks invaded and occupied Jerusalem in the late A.D. 100's, what religious practice did this disrupt?
- 30. In the Middle Ages, economic life across Europe centered around what system of agricultural production?
- 31. What was the middle class called in Germany?
- 32. Who did the crusades give power to?
Down
- 1. After being trained as a page, the nobleman's son would become a what at age fifteen?
- 2. What was the name for a traveling poet Musician?
- 4. The first Crusade was comprised of three main large armies, at what city did they all converge?
- 5. In feudalism, in return for a fief, a vassal had to agree to provide for his lord a _____?
- 6. Which diplomatic and forceful leader united the Muslim forces and captured Jerusalem in A.D. 1187?
- 8. What was the middle class called in France?
- 10. What was the term for a head of a monastery?
- 11. Upon contracting the black death, one's demise was inevitable should the disease reach which organs?
- 13. Which pope moved the papacy to France?
- 14. Which pope promoted the first crusade?
- 15. The shrine at Canterbury is dedicated to which saint?
- 17. What holy temple, built by Abraham, is considered the spiritual center of the Islamic world?
- 20. How was Joan of Arc's betrayal atoned for by the church?
- 21. What is Dante Alighieri noted for writing?
- 22. What was the name for church rituals, like baptism, penance and Eucharist, that were the only ways one could receive grace and a beneficial place in the afterlife?
- 24. Under which Caliph did the Abbasid Empire reach its height? This was between A.D. 786 and A.D. 809.
- 26. What was the middle class called in England
- 27. Which Arabic doctor produced the Canon of Medicine, a monumental volume attempting to summarize all medical knowledge known at that time?
- 33. What was the term for a person bound to a manor and that could not leave it without permission?