The Plague: An Unknown Effects Of The Black Death

The peasants gained more money after the plague. There is no plague anymore and most people have the same rights as others. In Source A, the video shows, that when more peasants died, the peasants that survived would get paid more and then they can get a home. After reading the details in Source A, it is clear that the peasants who survived in the plague is very lucky because they got a lot of money. In agreement with Source A, Source D states, the peasants gained more power after the plague since a lot of the peasants died from the plague. Since most of peasants died the peasants that survived got more money. So, then they got to buy things they couldn't buy before. As evident  in both of these sources, they both talk about how the peasants got more money and more power after more peasants

The Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague, was a disease that devastated Medieval Europe, between 1346 and 1352 it killed 45 million people, wiping out a third of Europe's population. Today, we know that there were many causes of the Black Death. Medieval towns had no system of drains, sewers or trash collections. In such slovenly conditions, germs could grow, and diseased rats could call these medieval towns their homes and infect the people who lived there. Many historians believed the plague originated in china and spread to other countries by trade routes. Infected people and/or infected rodents such as mice or black rats. The Black Death was caused by strains of the bubonic plague. The plague lived in fleas, and fleas lived on

The population losses among the previously overpopulated peasant class, who at this time were underemployed due to this overpopulation, were able to haggle for higher wages and better terms when it came to working, renting, and owning land. At the same time, the sudden loss in population meant the nobles could not demand high prices for product which weakened their power of wealth. This coupled with the higher earning wages of the peasant class meant they could move up in the social order to become farmers themselves or merchants of equal social standing. This period of social mobility didn’t last long, but it allowed for the end of feudalism as it was known during the Middle Ages. The end of feudalism meant the end of kings and nobles being able to give land in return for anything they could ever need including food and protection from knights. While it was still an important part of social class, land was no longer in the very center controlling every decision. In the years before the Black Death, it was the peasants who gave food and work to the knights. The knights then gave protection to nobles which gave money and the knights’ protection to the kings. In return, the king passed down land throughout the social classes. Although, the lower classes had the opportunity to accumulate land for the services they provided, in the end

The Black Death or the Bubonic Plague, was a huge plague that killed 20-50% of the world’s population. It all started in the 14th century where a flea called the Oriental Rat Flea, they would come usually on rat’s backs and later go on to humans. The rats would give painful swellings or “buboes” on some places, like the armpit. This was very dangerous, because it also would travel to the nervous system, and which led to death. The whole process took about a week and overall was very difficult at the time to stop. The Plague took the most overall on Europe, where 20 million people would die or one-third of their population.

Farm animals died, further diminishing the food supply. With all the deaths and drop in demand or food, the price of food dropped.” Everything started to decrease slowly with all of the deaths that were occurring in that time. With fewer people around to work, the wages had to rise in order for people to do their job. According to Depopulation, rebellion, and Social Progress, “ In Western Europe, common folks were more inclined to rebellion. With labor in short supply, they were aware of their added value as producers and eager to improve their situation.” More people wanted to get a higher job placement because of the few people that are left in Europe. The supply decreased and the demand increased so the economy

The Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, was the most infamous plague in the world. It started in China and rapidly spread to Asia and Europe. Between the years thirteen forty-eight and thirteen fifty, it killed about twenty-five to fifty million people, roughly thirty percent of Europe’s population. There are several beliefs for the cause of this horrible plague, including: the idea of God punishing the people, the Miasma Theory, and the concept of rats carrying the disease.

The Black Death, also called the Bubonic Plague, is one of the worst epidemic diseases.The Black Death was introduced by ship-borne rats from Black Sea areas, and spread along the trade routes from Asia into Europe. Throughout the years there have been many epidemics of this disease in Europe. Decades of overpopulation, economic depression, famine, and bad health weakened Europe’s population and made it easy for an epidemic of the Black Death to get started. It is estimated that 25,000,000 Europeans died from this disease (Kagan, Ozmant, and Turner 317).

The Muslims had a similar believed of the cause of the the plague, they believed it was caused by “miasma due to the wind”(Doc 5)they also thought that the cause of this was the abundance of shooting stars and sin, they believe that by consuming “pickled onions, pumpkin seeds and sour juices”(Doc 5) they would prevent the plague and also by staying indoors.Unlike Christians there's no “proof that Muslims seeked out scapegoats for the plague”(Doc

People abandoned their friends and family, left cities, and became hermits. Funerals stopped, as all work ceased, inflation sky rocketed because it was difficult to gather goods through trade, or to even try to produce anything as prices increased greatly. Because of death to the serf peasants who were the majority of people who labored, and the demand to work the fields were high, thus a bidding war ensued among the lords for this scarce labor pool which lead to even higher wages, and their standard of living increased. This was the beginning of clouding the

The Black Plague, also known as Black Death, the Great Mortality, and the Pestilence, is the name given to the plague that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351. It is said to be the greatest catastrophe experienced by the western world up to that time. In Medieval England, the Black Death killed 1.5 million people out of an estimated 4 million people between 1348 and 1350. There was no medical knowledge in England to cope with the disease. After 1350, it stroke England another six times by the end of the century.

The Black Death or the bubonic plague was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people and peaking in Europe in the years 1346–53. The black death first appeared in Europe in 1347 in Sicily, the disease was most likely brought to Europe on a ship that had been trading on the black sea. The black plague was carried by flea-infested rodents and spread rapidly. Almost half of Europe was killed by the bubonic plague.

The Black Death was a serious disease that occurred all across the eastern world that reached its peak in the middle of the 1300’s. The disease is known as one of the greatest tolls in European history. It wiped out somewhere in the range of 20-25 million people in Europe alone. Europeans were crushed not only by immense drops in population, but also by the devastating aftermath of the plague. It led to a great decline in trade and cultivated lands that people had once owned. The Black Death to this day is one of the greatest disasters in the history of Europe.

Many people were abandoned in their time of need and unable to receive their last rites because almost every priest refused to go near the sick to avoid becoming infected with the virus. Even though a significant amount of people were unable to receive their last rites, they were able to make a final confession to ensure that God forgave them for all of their sins. This was not the only new practice that emerged in Christianity throughout the time of the Black Death. Some Christians wanted to know what the victims of the plague were going through, so they spent an immense amount of time focusing on Jesus on the cross in hopes of understanding their pain and suffering. On the other hand, many Christians began to beat themselves in the hope that God would see them suffering and stop punishing them for their sins by ending the plague. Lastly, some Christians just blamed the plague on Jews. Overall, during the time of the Black Death, the Christian imagination had many unrealistic speculations to why the plague was happening to them, and they countered those with ineffective activities that they believed would help end the

The Black Death, the most severe epidemic in human history, ravaged Europe from 1347-1351. This plague killed entire families at a time and destroyed at least 1,000 villages. Greatly contributing to the Crisis of the Fourteenth Century, the Black Death had many effects beyond its immediate symptoms. Not only did the Black Death take a devastating toll on human life, but it also played a major role in shaping European life in the years following.

In the year 1348 the world changed forever. The Black Death, which is another name for the Bubonic Plague, laid havoc on the entire world. “The plague chases the screaming without pity and does not accept a treasure for a ransom. Its engine is far-reaching. The plague enters into the house and swears it will not leave except with all of its inhabitants…” (Al-Wardi, #29, 113). The plague did not care if the people were rich, poor, white, black, Muslim or Catholic, it would kill whomever it could. The plague brought out the worst in people because people acted selfishly, people were completely inhumane, and there was no peace.