Middle Ages

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass (6)
  2. 4. The mansion of a lord or wealthy person (5)
  3. 7. The collective body of ___ throughout the world and history (12)
  4. 8. Tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant (5)
  5. 9. The head of the Roman Catholic Church (4)
  6. 10. The social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century (9)
  7. 11. A British peer of the highest rank (4)
  8. 12. Originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry (plural) (7)

Down

  1. 1. Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water (4)
  2. 2. A nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right (7)
  3. 3. An ancient city on the Bosporus founded by the Greeks (9)
  4. 5. Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official (11)
  5. 6. A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system (9)
  6. 7. In Christianity, ___ collectively (6)
  7. 9. A country person (plural) (8)
  8. 10. A piece of land held under the feudal system (4)