Effects of the Black Death - How the Black Death Worked | HowStuffWorks - 12 views
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Garth Holman on 31 Mar 16How would the peasants that survived the Black Death, react to the huge increase in wages in the cities?
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Nitzan Omer on 15 Mar 19The people that survived were very hurt because they had seen so many people die, but they were also so happy that they were alive.They had a dance Macabre as a dance to talk to people that have died, and they celebrate being alive
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Arielle Epstein on 15 Mar 19The pesants who survived the black death, started to have better lives because of the increase in wages. Peasants started to eat nicer foods and made more money from working.
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The workforce had been destroyed -- farms were abandoned and buildings crumbled. The price of labor skyrocketed in the face of worker shortage, and the cost of goods rose. The price of food, though, didn't go up, perhaps because the population had declined so much.
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The Black Death did set the stage for more modern medicine and spurred changes in public health and hospital management. Frustrated with Black Death diagnoses that revolved around astrology and superstition, educators began placing greater emphasis on clinical medicine, based on physical science.
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They had turned to the church for an answer to the plague, and the church had been able to offer no help.
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The danse macabre, or dance of death, is an allegorical concept that was expressed in drama, poetry, music and visual art.
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The range of figures shown is meant to show that death will come for everyone, and the various activities depicted are a reminder that death could always be right around the corner.