Across
- 6. the title of a Muslim leader who was a successor of Muhammad
- 7. a building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows
- 9. to merge into another culture
- 11. expulsion from the Christian Church
- 14. a tall tower from which specially trained Muslims issue the call to prayer
- 15. a medieval agricultural worker who was tied to the land
- 16. a person who seeks knowledge through devotion or meditation
- 18. people appointed to religious service by the church
- 19. a sophisticated instrument that allowed users to calculate their location on Earth
Down
- 1. a horse-riding warrior who served as a lord’s vassal
- 2. the legal and social system in medieval Europe in which serfs worked the land and vassals performed military service for their lords in return for protection
- 3. an abstract design made up of repeating patterns or flowers, leaves, vines, or geometric shapes
- 4. the large scale buying and selling of goods
- 5. the everyday language spoken by people
- 8. a territory ruled by a duke or duchess
- 10. an association formed by artisans or merchants to improve their business
- 12. in medieval Europe, a person who gave military service and pledged loyalty to a lord in exchange for protection and land to live on
- 13. a Muslim judge
- 16. a medieval economic, social, and political system in which agricultural laborers were tied to the land they farmed and to the lord who owned the land
- 17. Corpus a legal procedure that prevents the government from holding a person indefinitely, without coming before a judge