The Middle Ages Crossword
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
                                                        
 
 
Down: 2) traveling poet- musicians at the castles and courts of Europe3) a code of behavior for knights expressing a complex set of ideas, demanding that a knight fight bravely in defense of three masters4) farmers can grow crops on 2/3 of their land each year, not just 1/26) a ceremony in which kings and nobles appointed church officials7) expansion of trade and business9) a germanic people in the Roman province of Gaul11) a person who recieved a grant of land from a lord in exchange for a pledge of loyalty and services12) "Great Charter", guaranteed certain basic political rights13) most powerful Capetians14) a lord's estate17) an undistinguished duke from the middle of France, began Capetian dynasty19) dont know20) ruled the kingdom21) dont know25) an empire established in the 10 century AD consisting mainly of lands originally in what is now Germany and Italy29) religious communities built by the church to adapt to the rural conditions34) split in the church; division35) a long effort by the Spanish to drive the Muslims out of Spain36) "legislative group", body or represenatives that make laws for a nation38) important religious ceremonies- in which God's grace is transmitted to people39) dont know42) dont know43) concerned with worldly rather than spritual matters44) dont know46) officials who perform religious services- preists, ministers, or rabbis Across: 1) a family's payment of one-tenth of their income to a church5) an organization of individuals in the same bisiness or occupation working to improve the economic and social conditions of its members8) a person who controlled land and could grant estates to vassals10) dont know15) dont know16) dont know18) selling or buying a position in a christian church22) an armored warrior who fought on horseback23) related to a style of church architecture; ripped vaults, stained glass windows, flying buttresses, pointed arches, and tail spires24) merchant class town dewellers26) schoolmen; used knowledge of Aristole to debate issues (scholars who gathered and taught)27) rulings of Englands royal judges formed into a unified body of law28) the family that would rule the Franks from 751 to 987 AD30) deadly diease that spread across Asia and Europe killing millions of people31) a court held by the church to supress heresy32) an expedition when christian soldiers sought to recover control of the Holy Land from the muslims33) an assembly of represenatives from all three estates; social class, in France37) a conflict when England and France battled on French soil on and off from 1337 to 145340) mock battles between groups of knights41) frebch peasant girl that saved France45) a peasant legally bound to live on a lord's estate47) everyday language of people in a region or county48) dont know49) an estate granted to a vassal by a lord under the fuedal system50) church law51) the gradual decline of the Roman Empire ushered in an era of European history
 

 

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