The Middle Ages

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Across
  1. 6. parts
  2. 8. communities of monks
  3. 9. a knight who promised to support a lord in exchange for land
  4. 10. refers to the shape and elevation of land in a region
  5. 12. historians call this system of promises that governed the relationships between lords and vassals
  6. 15. the large landmass that includes both Europe and Asia
Down
  1. 1. warriors who fought on horseback
  2. 2. assigned behavior
  3. 3. another name for the Middle Ages
  4. 4. workers who were tied to the land on which they lived
  5. 5. the large estate owned by a knight or lord
  6. 7. a period that lasted from about 500 to about 1500
  7. 11. Europeans called their code of honorable behavior for knights
  8. 13. religious men who lived apart from society in isolated communities
  9. 14. short, three-line poems of 17 syllables that describe nature scenes