HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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Surviving peasants gained more economic power.
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Most usable farmland was poisoned or destroyed.
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Religion became less of an influence among people.
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Peasants developed greater loyalty to their monarchs.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Black Death was the largest demographic shock in European history, killing approximately 40% of the region’s population between 1347 and 1352. Some regions and cities were spared, but others were severely hit: England, France, Italy and Spain lost between 50% and 60% of their populations in two years.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Those who had survived the plague began to enjoy higher standards of living as a result. While there was a significant improvement for many peasants, some sections of society did not benefit at all from the impact of the Black Death.
Detailed explanation-4: -The population in England in 1400 was perhaps half what it had been 100 years earlier; in that country alone, the Black Death certainly caused the depopulation or total disappearance of about 1, 000 villages. A rough estimate is that 25 million people in Europe died from plague during the Black Death.
Detailed explanation-5: -Bubonic plague causes fever, fatigue, shivering, vomiting, headaches, giddiness, intolerance to light, pain in the back and limbs, sleeplessness, apathy, and delirium. It also causes buboes: one or more of the lymph nodes become tender and swollen, usually in the groin or armpits.