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Jad asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 1 decade ago

what are some political effects of the black death?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    It was the end of the feudal system.

    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.

    So great was the death toll and fear of the plague that many courts and legislative bodies, on both the local and provincial levels, were abandoned. Even the art of waging war was affected by the plague: In 1348, the Hundred Years' War was postponed due to the high plague-related death toll among soldiers.

  • 5 years ago

    The effects were staggering since estimates put the deaths at 1/3 the population of Europe. There were not enough workers, churches lost many of their parishioners, and what gains the common folks had gained were lost since most of the royalty survived.

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