black death

Question 1

peaked in europe between 1347-50

Answer 1

30-95% of the population killed

Question 2

reduced world population

Answer 2

from 450 million to around 360 million

Question 3

time it took europe to recover

Answer 3

150 - 250 years

Question 4

impact on peasants- positive

Answer 4

labour in higher demand, new opportunities, higher wages, cheaper land prices, more farmland to farm, consumption of meat and dairy products went up

Question 5

impact on urban workers- positive

Answer 5

population decline, wages up, labourers could move around

Question 6

labour saving innovation

Answer 6

lead to higher productivity. shirt from grain farming to animal husbandry
lords forced to give better terms of tenure, leading to lower rents

Question 7

persecutions

Answer 7

o Jews, friars, foreigners, beggars, pilgrims, lepers, Romani
European mobs attacked jewish settlements, more than 350 separate massacres
women in Cairo became scapegoats

Question 8

religion

Answer 8

gods punishment for sin
new opportunities for women in the parish
shortage of clergy

Question 9

arts

Answer 9

pessimism
art representations of death, graphic depictions eg Petrarch
Greco-Roman styles in stone and paint, decaying corpses etc

Question 10

medicine

Answer 10

consumption of spirits rose due to distilled spirit