Saturday, May 14, 2011

The After Effects.

               One third of Europe's population died from the plague. The population in many areas decreased due to the amount of people dying or people trying to escape the disease. In a lot of cases though, it was probably both. A lot of victims were permanently weakened and stunned from the whole experience. Some blamed the Jews for transmitting the disease to everyone. So that issue caused even more chaos between everyone. Then that chaos caused riots and outbreaks of violence. An example of these outbreaks was the Peasants' Revolt in England. The disease also concluded in loss of labor since all of the slaves and workers died. So the decrease in labor also decreased production and the crops being sold and eaten. And then that led to starvation. Generations of families, scholars, artisans, and councils were destroyed. All of the social classes were forced to start all over again.
               These effects and social classes being destroyed happend a couple other times. There wer about three or four trimes the plague came back in. All of them caused nearly the same conquequences. The most devestating time it hot though waws between 1437 and 1450. During that time there were three different types of the plague. That meant that there were three different ways to suffer. But also three different ways to figure out a way to be cured. Even thought these other types were just as bad as the original, victims had hopes that this type would be different and less survere. Even though they werent right, it kept them keeping their chins up.

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