Consequences+of+the+Black+Plague

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 * ====== Killed an estimated 75-200 million people in the 14th century. 45 to 50% of the European population died during a 4-year period. ======
 * ====== China's population decreased from an estimated 125 million to 65 million in the late 14th century, which was 2/3 of China's population. ======
 * ====== Cities in Europe were infested with lice, fleas, and rats. Monks and priests were especially hard hit because they cared for the Black death's victims. ======
 * ====== Loss of faith. ======
 * ======Caused widespread persecutions of minorities like Jews or lepers - people believed they poisoned the water supplies, causing the sickness.======
 * Mobs attacked Jews because the Jews were their economic competitors and they owed the Jews money.
 * Christians thought the Jews were overall responsible for killing Jesus.
 * ======The precise demographic impact is impossible to calculate. Mortality was particularly high in rural areas, and survivors fled, leaving their fields and crops behind.======
 * ======Europe had been overpopulated before the plague, but a reduction of 30 to 50% of the population meant less competition for resources.======
 * ======There was more available land and food, and workers got higher wages.======
 * ======Population levels wouldn't rise until nearly 120 years after the black plague ended.======
 * ======Peasants became more in demand and had more power because of all the deaths. Because of all the deaths, there was more fertile land available, and less laborers.======
 * ====Workers who remained alive could earn up to five times more than they had earned before the plague.====
 * Land prices rose 67%
 * Kings and Queens died so there was no one to rule the common people
 * Parliaments were adjourned when the plague struck
 * City councils were ravaged
 * Whole families of local nobles were wiped out
 * Courts closed down and wills could not be probated - people couldn't get the possessions left to them in wills
 * Marriage rate rose sharply
 * Birth rate rose, but the plague kept population levels down
 * Increases in violence and debauchery
 * People would drink to try and make themselves feel numb to the pain of everyone dying around them
 * Flagellants believed God had inflicted the sickness upon them as a punishment for sin
 * Flagellants would harm themselves in public because they believed they could drive the devil away and wash away their sins
 * The feudal system was introduced to tie peasants to the land
 * The feudal law stated that peasants could only leave their land with their lord's permission
 * After the black plague, lords wanted people to leave their villages and come to their village to work. When the peasants did this (upsetting the whole feudal system), the lord refused to let the peasants leave and return to their home village.
 * after u died in the black plague they would use Ur dead body in war against other countries.
 * while the black plague was going on it would turn ur hands and feet black.