It was a crisis where no one knew why death kept coming. Not only did kill, but it impacted how life was lived, too. Overall, the black death forever damaged the social pillars in Europe. One of the social pillars was how family was, and with a crisis like the plague, family wasn’t the biggest factor in surviving. In the event that the plague was spreading, it scared others and led them to panic.
It can be argued with a fair amount of certainty that the evidence from modern science does provide a clear cut understanding of how it could’ve started because of how voyages and trade were done in this time period. With no way of cure for the plague, people had to face the pain and die. Trained doctors and nurses who were set to treat the disease had no way of knowing how to cure it much less what caused it. In recent studies done, scientists identified the disease as Yersinia pestis **17 that caused the Black Death. These findings have been accepted in the Historical community for it gives more accurate evidence.
The Black Death caused many positive and negative changes in medieval society. Since the Black Death caused such a vast amount of humans to die in a short period, there was a large surplus of food however a shortage of peasants to work the land. This labour shortage meant that serfs were no longer tied to the land and could leave to find higher wages, as said in Chronicle of the Black Death 'such a shortage of workers... scarcely be persuaded to serve the eminent unless for triple wages'. Secondly, because of the upwards mobility and lack of structure that came from the Black Death and the fact that serfs could ask for more pay, feudalism became a lot less prominent in many places and was eventually replaced with other systems, such as capitalism.
Moreover, the Black Death caused a gastric drop in the economy. Workers died, prices rose, and lords pushed laws so peasants couldn't demand higher wages leading to many revolts and rebellions. Due to the death of so many people, there weren't enough people buying products so the prices rose tremendously. Since the plague started killing millions of workers, lords would try force the survivors to work. But, the surviving workers began to demand higher wages since there were higher prices in the sales market.
This disease also brought about changes for the people in the affected areas. The Black Death caused large changes in the population of Europe during the Middle Ages. In the article Depopulation, Rebellion and Social Progress it states, “It has been roughly estimated that a third of England died from the Black Death of 1348-49, and perhaps this figure in not far from the losses suffered in other areas of Europe…” The number of losses suffered in this time makes the Black
All plagues strike by uprooting individual lives and society as a whole. Nevertheless, the particular circumstances regarding the government, and religious and cultural beliefs in the affected lands influence the specific results of the tragedy, as witnessed through the Black Death and smallpox. Although both diseases led to drastic economic changes, they caused different overturns of religious beliefs, and only the Black Death resulted in the creation of public health services and the marginalization of groups of people. A lack of labor precipitated alterations to the economy--the end of feudalism in the case of the Black Death and the creation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the case of smallpox.
Suddenly everyone around started to die; they were healthy one day, then they developed black tumors on their bodies, and two days later they were gone. The streets became a graveyard, more than half of the town died and the others would not leave their house terrified that they would be the next to go. The town became hell and that is when they understood that it was the doing of the Jews. They were sent by Satan, they poisoned the water causing everyone to die in order to make Earth an inferno. Years later people realized that the Black Death was in fact caused by micro-organisms.
The Black Death was a pandemic that affected a large part of the world in the 1346–1353 that was spread by the fleas on rats and i 'll be answering various of questions about the Black Death. How did the Black Death affect a large part of the world, well it spread by the fleas on the black rats it got to the people is by bacteria the of the fleas infecting the black rats and it got to people and made them really sick. It made people sick by killing the tissue and turning the dead tissue under the skin black with the persons who had the Black Death died within the couple days after they got the black death. How could have the Black Death could 've been prevented, well it could have been prevented by washing your hands like having good
In comparing to Black death and AIDS, both are epidemic disease, but the harmful consequences of the Black Death were in large scale in Societies and economies than AIDS. During the Black Death, food production collapsed because a huge number of farmers died which led to femine happen (Tignor). The famine caused the shortage of food and it helps to raise prices, work stoppages and unrest. On the other hand, AIDS was not that effective on economies like Black Death had. Even though, AIDS is a life threatening disease, but modern technology discovers the remedy of this disease which keep stabilize the AIDS in present day.
The Black Death or Black Plague was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history. Before the Black Death came to England grew more rapidly than agricultural production. They were getting better in their economy. Many people lived only at subsistent level. They were not living lavish or anything just alright.
The Black Death was an influential factor in many societal changes that occurred during the 14th century. These changes were the depopulation of Europe, reduced labor force, rising wages, and increasing slave demand, government fixing wages promoting rebellion of the peasants and other workers. Depopulation in Western Europe occurred rapidly as during the 13th century after the sudden increase in population the Black Plague infected peasants which were usually farmers and also made up most of the population. This infection and
There were many consequences that resulted from the Black Death some negative and others positive. The positive influences of the disease include wage increases, a higher standard of living, the end of feudalism, humanism which is the questioning of one’s worth. This lead to the appreciation of the arts and physical sciences. Another positive of the Black Death was that medicine evolved.
During the late 1340s the standards of living for the peasants began to increase. According to Routt, many peasants were able to afford things that they were not able to before due to the surplus and the plummet of the prices of goods. Since many of the workers died because of the Black Death, many employers were left without workers. These employers grudgingly employed the peasants since they were the only people left who were not infected and who did not have jobs. The Black Death had a profound effect agriculture.
Consequently, the black death caused the stable system, known as feudalism to cease to exist in Europe. The Black death is a horrible disease that caused many symptoms in and on the body and was easily transmitted. There are a few different
In summary, the Black Death affected political aspects of Europe because it altered the plans of the Kings who wanted to conquer more land, and make more money for themselves and their nobility. The politics in Europe were not the only area affected by the Black
