Consequences

====The black death made it so there was 30 to 60 percent less people in Europe so peasants could ask for more pay since the King needed them more. After the black death the different lords tried to get peasants to come to their village to come work for them. If they did that the lord refused to return them to the village that they came from. This was how the peasants found out that they could ask for more pay since the lord was more desperate for a good harvest. The governments then saw that peasants were leaving their villages to find a better "deal" from a lord. This messed up the feudal system because the whole point of it was to tie the peasants to the land. Even though the feudal system was meant to help the lords, they were the ones encouraging these movements. Those who survived also were more immune to the black death since they were partially exposed to it, but even though they were immune to it they were all becoming anti-social because they all feared getting the plague.The peasants so on lost faith in the king because they thought that he could save them but didn't. The people affected by the black plague also thought that the jews caused the plague so they were less friendly to them. The churches also had less people coming to them because people had faith in their religions. The Columbian exchange impacted many people and things as people started coming to the new world after Columbus's voyage. One big thing that happened because of this was that smallpox became a major epidemic there. Next, those people killed a huge population of the natives there and almost percent were killed. This started a lot of the trade of slaves to there because since all the natives were killed they had to get someone else to do their work for them.====



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