Across
- 2. the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.
- 4. materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain.
- 6. make or form (sloping land) into a number of level flat areas resembling a series of steps.
- 8. a site located at the center of the ancient city of Rome and the location of important religious, political and social activities
- 10. the physical movement of people from one place to another
- 12. denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablet
- 13. the action or process of sailing or otherwise traveling all the way around something, especially the world.
- 14. a series of military expeditions
Down
- 1. manuscripts, archives, letters, diaries, and speeches.
- 3. the process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use.
- 5. a Babylonian legal text composed during 1755–1750 BC
- 7. the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns
- 9. the state of being scarce or in short supply; shortage.
- 10. work done by humans
- 11. the state or quality of being resistant to a particular infectious disease or pathogen.