Impact of the Black Death

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Impact of the Black Death

• Honors World Studies I
• Mrs. Featherer

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Trade
People suspicious of outsiders
Trade disrupted
Economic decline
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Feudalism Manorialism
EVERYONE was affected lords died, too!
Vassals, Serfs, Town Dwellers freed from feudal
obligations
Further weakening of feudal system
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Population
1/2 to 1/3 of Europe Died
Scarcity of Labor
Laborers could demand more in return for their
work
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Persecution
People were scared--cause of plague was unknown
Jews blamed
Jews banished from towns massacred
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The Church
Pope preached that plague was punishment from God
People still died, even though they "stopped
sinning"
Influence of Pope and Church declined