Black Death (31 дек 1346 г. – 18 июн 1352 г.)

Описание:

1. Social Impacts
• Class systems starting to change
• Pleasant unhappiness → leading up to the
Industrial Revolution social upheaval
• Unhappiness due to…
• Fewer workers → wages increased →
landowners unhappy → heavy
taxations
• Paying taxes for Church to build
cathedrals → losing faith in Church

2. Economic Impacts
• Shifted from feudal economy (pleasants
work for the landowners in return for food)
~ capital secularism
• $$$ motivates the Age of Exploration