The Middle Ages

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Across
  1. 2. series of battles between England and France over control of the French throne
  2. 5. where the lord and his knights lived; usually on a hilltop to make it easier to defend
  3. 6. warriors who fought on horseback in exchange for land
  4. 8. church officials who perform religious services
  5. 10. a political and social system where a powerful lord would offer protection in return for service
  6. 12. king of the Franks and crown Holy Roman Emperor by the pope
  7. 14. the code of honorable behavior for medieval knights
Down
  1. 1. the act of removing a person from membership in the church
  2. 3. worker tied to the land on which they lived
  3. 4. religious men who lived in monasteries
  4. 5. having to do with the middle ages
  5. 7. Germanic people who held power in Gaul
  6. 8. a series of military expeditions launched by Christian Europeans to win back the Holy Land from Muslin control
  7. 9. land owned by a lord
  8. 11. another name for a king or queen
  9. 13. a deadly disease that spread throughout Europe and killed nearly half the population