HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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Question
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Lords provided greater protection due to the decrease in workers
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An increase in population meant more job opportunities on the manor
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They abandoned manors and fled to towns seeking higher pay and more rights
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They were offered more opportunities to become clergy members
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Detailed explanation-1: -The great population loss wrought by the plague brought favorable results to the surviving peasants in England and Western Europe, such as wage increases and more access to land, and was one of the factors in the ending of the feudal system.
Detailed explanation-2: -“THE BLACK DEATH” OR BUBONIC PLAGUE While fear and death diminished populations in European cities, decreased trade and drove up prices it also severely undermined the feudal system in the countryside. This weakening of the feudal system led to economic growth and development in the long-term.
Detailed explanation-3: -At the same time, the plague brought benefits as well: modern labor movements, improvements in medicine and a new approach to life. Indeed, much of the Italian Renaissance-even Shakespeare’s drama to some extent-is an aftershock of the Black Death.
Detailed explanation-4: -But for those peasants who survived, there was a new positivity about life. Taxes went down, wages went up and they felt significant for the first time in history. So was the Black Death really such a disaster? There were many theories at the time as to the origins of the Black Death.