Effects+of+The+Black+Death

The Effects
 * It was estimated that during the 14Th century it was estimated 100-200 million people were killed by the black plague.
 * after the plague ended the economies had a major jump. jobs were popping up everywhere because, the people who did have those jobs were all dead, these jobs became high paying then because of the lack of workers. Therefore everyone wanted them.
 * [[image:http://history-world.org/black_death.jpg width="320" height="240"]]
 * the plague caused a great mood of pessimism, and depressing art
 * the plague also caused some Europeans to target Jews, friars, foreigners, beggars, pilgrims, and other groups.
 * also, europe was overpopulated at the time. once the plague started it took out 30 - 50 percent of the population therefore increasing wages and available land.
 * Many nobles and vassals were killed by the plague, opening the door for kings who claimed power and established strong, aristocratic nation-states that governed Europe through the Renaissance
 * The greatest impact of the plague was that the rigid feudal system, which was in place for nearly a thousand years was dismantled.
 * The feudal system is the social system that was used in Europe at the time of the plague, this system was based completely on who owned the land. The thing that dismantled it was that when a noble, or someone who owns land, dies all the people who worked for them saw the land as a free for all, because there was free land that no one owned. Also if it were the workers that died, the surviving
 * Some people targeted Jews because they were considered the image of the antichrist, they were believed to poison the Christians water wells, and the lepers participated because they were apparantly bribed by the Jews.
 * during this time it was important that people had the time to confess their sins before they died, but when the black plague struck it caused death so swiftly that could not confess them. the pope at the time was forced to grant remission, or a cancel, to the sins of all the people who died of the black plague. Victims were aloud to confess their sins to one another, even to a woman. the church had no reason for the plague which caused doubt about their religion.
 * in middle Europe there were common people could not make that rich of promises, they payed penance for their sins by flogging themselves. This group was called flagellants, they would walk through town bareback whipping themselves and those who accompanied them. the flogs they used would be leather with nots in them of metal spikes

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