Medieval Europe Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• protection: the service offered by knights to lords in feudalism.
• crusades: a holy war with the intention of retaking jerusalem for the christian church.
• roman empire: the fall of the _ _ is said to be the event that 'started' the middle ages.
• charlemagne: he united central and western europe.
• jerusalem: the most religious city in the world in the middle ages.
• fief: the land given to a lord by a king.
• serf: a peasant that couldn't leave a lord's property.
• medieval: latin for middle ages.
• tithe: the 10% religious tax that all europeans had to pay.
• feudalism: the social and political system of the middle ages.
• france: the winner of the hundred year war.
• catalan: the _ forge allowed for easy and cheap iron production.
• vikings: the most famous nomadic tribe that ravaged europe.
• great schism: the splitting of the church into two separate religions in 1054 (2 words)
• buboes: the pus-filled sores on sufferers of the black death.
• flea: the animal that carried the black death bacteria within its body