Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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Respond to the following question (your response should be A MIN of 50 words)~ then respond to ONE of your fellow classmates. Did they answer the question fully? Could they add anything about how the manor affected the life of the peasants? (your response should be more than "I AGREE"...MIN of 25 words)
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The Black Death caused starvation, extreme illness, and inhuman living conditions. It forced people out of work because they were too weak to manage a job and since the agriculture was horrible at the time it forced others into starvation. Since many no longer had jobs and were always hungry the conditions of a medieval peasant were disgusting. They would sleep on the streets and slowly wait to die. There was a select amount of food so the government was able to raise the prices a lot higher than usual causing them to make more money. While the government was making the money peasants couldn’t afford it and they were forced into starvation.
The Black plague was one of the darkest parts of the medieval ages. It all but destroyed the economy by killing off more than one-third of the population. There were less people to work and build. The culture was deeply affected by the plague for a long time especially in art. It made many people focus on gothic type styles in there works, such as The Triumph of Death. It had devastating effects on the people they flocked to churches hoping god would save them and prayed a priest what ever they want just so god would pray for them.
Dear Mr. Abel and fellow students,
The Black Death in my opinion helped shape the Medieval economy in a positive way. It took care of the population surplus in Europe that negatively affected the economic balance and helped end the period of uncertain surplus. Wages were raised due to labor shortages. As well it affected representative assemblies in a positive way giving laborers more rights to help their trade. Economies all over Europe became more interdependent and more global ensuring a more international education at universities and fostering a wealth of immigration spreading trade and coinage further fueling the growth of a European economy. Traveling spread different ideas further ensuring market drive and international competition for raw materials. Even though some countries went more local the grand margin was rather a spread of economic values and the beginning of captitalism.
Sincerely,
Benjamin Crockett
Dear Ajay sandhu,
I agree with you that the Black Death was a devastating time and that its impact of Europe was sadening. The focus on death must have been depressing and Gothic Architecture truly represented this pessimism. I would have to say though that while the economy was stretched by the loss of 1/3 of the population, I feel that it allowed for the healing of the economy through its refocus on individualism that we can see in our form of capitalim.
Sincerely,
Benjamin
The Black Death was a big impact on the economy of medieval society. There was a huge shortage in labor, which decreased production of food and other necessities. Because of this shortage of supplies, there was less trade and nothing was being imported in which caused people to really struggle for food. But since so many were dying there was an increase in per capital wealth. Guilds were also accepting more members, because all the old ones had died off.
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