HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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The rate of urbanization increased.
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A shortage of workers developed.
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Food crops had to be imported from the Americas.
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German states dominated trade in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The consequences of this violent catastrophe were many. A cessation of wars and a sudden slump in trade immediately followed but were only of short duration. A more lasting and serious consequence was the drastic reduction of the amount of land under cultivation, due to the deaths of so many labourers.
Detailed explanation-2: -Farm work was peasant work, whether performed by serfs bound to a particular manor, tenant farmers or wage laborers hired by the year or the season. But the staggering mortality of the Black Death reduced this previously sufficient peasant population sharply enough to create a severe labor shortage.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the aftermath of the plague, the richest 10% of the population lost their grip on between 15% and 20% of overall wealth. This decline in inequality was long-lasting, as the richest 10% did not reach again the pre-Black Death level of control on overall wealth before the second half of the seventeenth century.
Detailed explanation-4: -THE BLACK DEATH CHANGES EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE The Black Death was a great tragedy. However, the decrease in population caused by the plague increased the wages of peasants. As a result, peasants began to enjoy a higher standard of living and greater freedom.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Black Death resulted in the deaths of an estimated 75-200 million people-approximately 30% of Europe’s population. It spread from central Asia on rat fleas living on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships, and traveled towards Europe as people fled from one area to another.