consequences+of+the+black+death

//**consequences of the black death**//

** The black death, the third deadliest pandemic in human history, which peaked in Europe between 1349 and 1351, led to several major social, economic and religious consequences in Europe. **

**The deadly disease has been with man and part of world and medieval history for a very long time. It has killed over 200 MILLION lives. **
 * Feeling, essentially, that God had turned his back on them, the people turned their backs on him. It was clear through the time, though, that people still had death on their minds. The danse macabre, or dance of death, is an allegorical concept that was expressed in drama, poetry, music and visual art. The danse macabre usually shows a procession or dance between the living and the dead. The range of figures shown is meant to show that death will come for everyone, and the various activities depicted are a reminder that death could always be right around the corner. **


 *  The first recorded epidemic of the Black Death( Bubonic Plague) was in Europe during the 6th Century. **


 *  The disease spread throughout the West and reached pandemic proportions because people were moving from the country villages to highly populated towns. Because of the people moving and travailing the disease rapidly spread throughout Asia. The Black Death (Bubonic Plague) followed the Trade Routes. Because of people using the trade routs so much, the black death travailed with the people and it was not Europe and Africa that had it bad with the black death. It was country's like China that had an outbreak in 1328 and the population dropping from 125 million to 90 million during just the middle half of the 14 century!! **
 *  And now that the shipping from Europe and the rats on bored with them, it helped the black death spared more and more. It got so bad that in just one city a day they lost 1000 lives. Then in just 2 months, the death rate went from 1000 to 7500 a day! Life was almost completely dead! **


 *  ECONOMY **
 *  The people got hit hard with the black death but there businesses got hit hard too. **
 *  People would try to sell there things and the business but no one could buy or they just had died. Because of this no one had any and what they had they were paying doctors and all they would get from them is sorry but we cant help you. So much for that. Then when one person got sick in the homes of the people, everyone got sick. Then just like you guessed they all would die and leave there homes standing empty and no one home ever again. **

**POLITICS ** ** The black death didn't have much politics but it it took its toll. Alfonso XI of Castillo was the only reigning monarch to die from the plague. But many lesser workers died to, including the queens of paragons and France, and the son of the byzantine emperor. The plague took the lives of so many people. Local nobles killed everyday because of the black death! The world was slowly coming to a end. But life did go on. Because of the death the people lost the upper class and there riches. There was really no politics thanks to the black death. **
 *  ENVIRONMENT **
 *  If the black death looked bad on people, know the environment did to! In the time of the black death the world was dark , people had turned there backs on god and everyone was dieing. To me it seemed like it was Hell on earth. **
 *  You could not walk out the door at that time with out seeing a dead body or someone dieing! The black death was taking over and making people suffer in there own home! It was like a secret invisible cereal killer. Almost like the old Jack the ripper but no knife and you cant see him! The black death was such a bad time that we lost over millions and millions of people!!! The environment was dark, cold ,black and dead **


 * Contemporaries were horrified by the onset of the plague in the summer of 1348. Within weeks of 1/2 summer people were dying in unprecedented large numbers. Ralph Higden of Chester, the best known contemporary chronicler thought 'sadly only a tenth was left ali ****ve', and from there they just kept going down lower and lower. The phrase 'there were hardly enough living to care for the ones that sat there sick and bury the dead' is repeated in various sources including a chronicle compiled at St Mary's Abbey, York. The Malmesbury monk, writing in Wiltshire, reckoned that 'over England as a whole a fifth of men, women and children were carried to the grave'. The plague did not abate in the Winter but became even more virulent in the early months of 1349 and continued into 1350. **

** The Decline of Feudalism ** **The Medieval Feudal system, feudalism, worked well for many hundreds of years. The decline of feudalism occurred due to a number of events which occurred during the Medieval era of the Middle Ages. Feudalism was based on the division of land by the king to nobles and vassals in return for their military service under the Feudal Levy. Land was the main source of the economy and was dependent on the peasants who worked on the land.**

** Reasons for the Decline of Feudalism **

The reasons for the decline of Feudalism during the Medieval period of the Middle Ages included: **The Crusades and travel during the Middle Ages opened new trade options to England** >  **THE THINGS <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">TITLED IN RED ARE FROM.** <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">  <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> []
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**England started to move from land based economy to a money based economy**
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**The Black Death - this reduced the population of England by one third. Labour became a valuable commodity**
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**The Peasants Revolt - Peasants realised their worth and demanded changes. Charters were granted but ignored by nobles**
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**More trade saw the growth of more towns**
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Peasants moved away from the country into towns they were eventually allowed to buy their freedom**
 * **A centralised government was established**
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Land was rented and the rights of lords over labour decreased**
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**The Feudal Levy was unpopular and as time went by Nobles preferred to pay the King rather than to fight and raise troops**
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Armed men were paid a wage and Medieval warfare was financed by taxes and loans**
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Nobles became weaker - the Kings took back their lands and power** <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">