Consequences

===The Black Death was one of the worst natural disasters in history. It swept over Europe and Asia and ravaged cities causing widespread of death. The Black Death, also known as the Black Plague, was a devastating pandemic that struck Europe in the mid-14th century. Plague epidemics also occurred in large portions of Asia and the Middle East during the same period. __A Economic consequences is that many farmers have quit and moved to another place. Since this happened there there was not that many crops or food for people to eat. So then food was scare. You would have to pay lot of money to get food. But many people didn't have jobs so also people died of starvation as well.__Also that many Jewish people were killed because many people have blamed them just because they of there beliefs.The Black Death had many long-term consequences. One was a series of vicious attacks on Jews and outsiders who were accused of deliberately poisoning the water or the air. They were, for the most part, exterminated throughout Europe.The attacks against Jews began in the south of France, but were most dramatic in parts of Switzerland and German areas with a long history of attacks on local Jewish communities. Massacres in Bern, Switzerland were typical of this pattern; after weeks of fearful tension, Jews were rounded up and burned or drowned. Sometimes there were attacks on Jews even where there was no plague.An important legacy of the Black Death was to cause the eastward movement of what was left of north European Jewry to Poland and Russia.The precise demographic impact of the disease in the Middle East is impossible to calculate. Mortality was particularly high in rural areas. Many surviving rural people fled, leaving their fields and crops, and entire rural provinces are recorded as being totally depopulated. Surviving records in some cities reveal a devastating number of deaths.The plague did more than just devastate the medieval population. It caused a change in the economy and society in all areas of the world. Economic historians have concluded that the Black Death began during a recession in the European economy that had been under way since the beginning of the century, and only served to worsen it.The death of so many people concentrated wealth in the hands of survivors. In many cases, those workers who remained alive could earn up to five times what they had earned before the plague. In the towns, plague had the effect of consolidating wealth.===



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