The Middle Ages

4. important in the development of law because it was the beginning of representative democracy and constitutional government
5. the king forced to sign the Magna Carta
6. a peasant who made up half of Europe's population
7. the code of conduct for knights
10. a person who pledged loyalty and support to a lord in return for land and protection
12. the people who protected the manors and the kings
15. the Battle that helped William the Conqueror become King of England was the Battle of _____
16. the century long War between England and France was called the _____ War.
18. French woman famous for having been burned at the stake during the Hundred Years' War
20. the end of the Crusades, these people controlled the Holy Land

1. the only language Bibles were printed in during the Middle Ages
2. another name for the Bubonic Plague
3. this was the basis for power in feudal society
5. city captured by the Crusaders at the end of the first Crusade
8. the Spanish _____ was used by the Church to accuse people of heresy (speaking against the Church)
9. the era of European History between the fall of Rome and the Middle Ages; Germanic tribes were ruling Europe
11. the Holy Wars waged by European Christians against Muslims to gain control of the Holy Land
13. the Bubonic Plague is widely thought to have been a result of the bacteria carried by _____ that lived on rats
14. the country from which the Bubonic Plague is believed to have come from via traders in Europe
17. the head of the Catholic Church
19. he was the King of the Franks and expanded his empire over Western Europe
21. after the kings, these were the most powerful people in the feudal system