The Feudal System

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Male ruler of a kingdom (4)
  2. 6. A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system (9)
  3. 8. A nobleman of varying rank (plural) (6)
  4. 11. A relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another (plural) (6)
  5. 13. An earlier section of a written text (5)
  6. 14. The territory occupied by a nation (4)

Down

  1. 1. Originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry (plural) (7)
  2. 2. Advanced in complexity or elaboration (6)
  3. 3. The state of being rich and affluent (6)
  4. 4. A country person (plural) (8)
  5. 5. A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole (6)
  6. 7. Building where Christians gather to worship (6)
  7. 8. In or to a place that is lower (5)
  8. 9. Organ that pumps blood around the body (5)
  9. 10. Of or relating to or characteristic of ___ (6)
  10. 12. That which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions (4)