Social Sciences and History / Unit 3 SSH 0238 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Black Death and Its Aftermath
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The idea
After decades of famine, the plague reached Europe in thirteen forty-eight from the Mongol lands; contagion was not understood. The death toll made labor scarce, lords tried to hold wages down, peasants rose, and wages rose anyway.
In practice
Women gaining property and guild rights for about a century.
Where people slip
The Hundred Years' War, thirteen thirty-seven to fourteen fifty-three, and the papal schism ran alongside.
Your place on the trail
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