What is the significance of the Black Death (1347) in Europe other than the fact that a lot of people died?

Answer 1

The plague held tremendous significance over wages, labor demand, and land values. The traditional view that the plague had a terrible effect on the economy has been greatly changed. Evidence from England states that the agrarian economy showed remarkable resilience. While the severity of the disease varied from region to region, it appears that most landlords enjoyed revenues near those of pre-plague years. By the early fifteenth century, seigneurial prosperity reached a medieval peak. Increased demand for labor meant greater mobility among peasant and working classes. Wages rose, providing better income. Population losses caused the bubonic plague led to increased productivity by restoring a more efficient balance between labor, land, and capital.

The Black Death or the Bubonic Plague and its Medieval World history and origins
. The disease truly became pandemic in 1328 - the medieval period of the history of the world. During this period a third of the world population died.
Black Death 1348-1350

World Communities devastated by the Black Death or the Bubonic Plague and the deadly consequences of the Disease
The western world farming communities were devastated by the spread of the disease. It became common place to see livestock abandoned, their owners overtaken by the spread of the Black Death / Bubonic Plague. Livestock and people perished. This decline of the farming communities resulted in food shortages. A major consequence of the disease was famine - and even more people perished. Surviving populations of villages and towns were forced to move or starve to death. World demographics totally altered due to the spread of the disease. And the spread still continued. The Black Death / Bubonic Plague was therefore carried by starving people and spread to even more new areas. The world was gripped by a cycle of disease followed by famine...

Answer 2

If you research "The Great Mortality" you'll find all the information you need on the social and political significance of the Bubonic Plague in Europe. Here is a sample, below, taken from a much longer essay.

The Great Mortality and its Socio-Economic Repercussions.

The Great Mortality, better known to us as the Black Death, or the plague, wiped out 1/3 of the population of Europe and many other nations. Its impact was not only of the slain innocent, but it also impacted society in a socio-economic fashion. The Great Mortality changed the very core of how government was run, power was shifted, traditions were lost, and the economy completely changed. This was a new era; burying old traditions along with the dead and the rise of the “nouveaux riches.”


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Today early treatments offer a cure for Bubonic Plague in 85 percent of cases.

Answer 3

It is also significant because not only did a bunch of people die but it was the start of a great epidemic that can still be found today but rarely. It cut the world population down dramatically and if it came again the world might lose almost all of its people and if not a lot of them.

Answer 4

1. People began to doubt relegion and therefore turned to witch craft and magic, and wild pleasures because they believed the end was enivitable
2. Individuals grew seperated and secluded in fear of contagion
3. Christians blamed Jews
4. As workers died, production declined.
It was the drastic turn of instability within Europe.
Thankyou World History.

Answer 5

The Black Death is the Bubonic Plague. There is no cure; it just has to die away on its own. It could always come back... it has since then, I believe. Around the 1800s.

Answer 6

the fact is the did not get there immune shots from plague disease, since most of Europe big cit caught the disease but did not die and they all worked at the trading ports black people thought it was god, but people did get prosecuted for it

Answer 7

It is stated that rats were the carriers of the disease.