WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The plague increased the power of the common people by killing some of the people making them work harder or become soldiers. If they worked harder, then they would get more appreciation for their jobs. If they were in the army and survived, they would be given a better job in the society.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Black Death and Peasants’ Revolt Due to the fact that so many had died, there were far fewer people to work the land: peasants were therefore able to demand better conditions and higher wages from their landlords. Many advanced to higher positions in society.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The plague had large scale social and economic effects, many of which are recorded in the introduction of the Decameron. People abandoned their friends and family, fled cities, and shut themselves off from the world. Funeral rites became perfunctory or stopped altogether, and work ceased being done.