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Economic Dislocation:
-Trade declined.
-Florence's Woolen Industry
-Shortage of workers caused a rise in the price of labor.
-Low demand for food, resulting in falling prices.
Population Decline
Italy:
-50 to 60 percent of the population died.
England and Germany:
-Entire villages simply disappeared.
-Between 1347-1351, out of the 78 million people, 38 million had died in Europe.
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- Reached Europe in October 1347.
- Brought from Caffa to the island of Sicily off the coast of Italy by Genoese merchants.
- Some of the sailors had been infected with the disease and whenever they sailed across the nations, so did the plague followed their trade routes.
- After entering Europe through Sicily, the Black Death had killed almost one quarter and one half of the population within just three years.
Revolts:
-New government taxes leading to rural revolts.
-The English Peasants' Revolt of 1381.
The Black Death
in a cluster:-
- The Black Death is a term referring to a plague that caused the death of millions of peoples during the mid-fourteenth century.
- It spread to areas of Asia, North Africa, Europe, and to areas of southwestern China and the Middle East as well.
- Although not discovered instantly, the cause of the Black Death was later researched and discovered by the French Biologist Alexandre Yersin.
- According to Alexandre Yersin, the plague was spread by a bacillus named Yersinia pestis.