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