Across
- 4. a plot of land exchange for loyalty to a ruler
- 6. decorated by hand with designs
- 8. the ability to read
- 10. Person who receives land from a ruler and promises to fight for the ruler
- 11. Upper or Noble Class that you must be born into
- 13. a soldier on horseback who served a king or other ruler
- 14. a person with power and influence who controls land given to them by a King
- 15. a large country house and its surrounding land
- 17. an organization that has existed for a long time and promotes a particular cause
- 18. in a Christian Church, people such as the Priests, that carry out the religious duties
Down
- 1. Powerful families that hold the fiefs and titles
- 2. Having to do with Europe in the Middle Ages
- 3. society dominated by oldest man in Family
- 5. Plow the land, but left it unplanted for a period In order to restore the lands fertility
- 7. a system government in which land is exchanged for loyalty or services
- 9. a large piece of land or property
- 11. having the power of Self Government
- 12. a person who lived on the feudal estate and was required to work for the Lord of the Manor
- 16. a group of crafts people that control a certain craft