"During the "Middle Ages", from 476 to about 1100, European civilization slipped into semi-barbarism". It was a very hard and bad time, but a lot of historians debate about if Europe was in a "dark age" or not. The evidence states that Europe was a dark age. There was a lot of evidence that states that Europe was not in a dark age.
1. The Great Famine was when it caused millions of deaths due to severe weather. Storms brought rain which ruined the wheat, crops, oat which people and animals almost everywhere depended to live. It’s impact on the medieval society was that more people were getting diesease as they wouldn't take in a lot of calories especially for the young kids, and the elderly. Working people, not eating much had less energy which meant lower productivity, output and higher grain prices since the amount was decreasing.
Around the same times as the hunts broke out so did large disease’s and famine. one of the largest disaster that took Europe for a spin at the time. The Black Plague was horrific and took the lives of nearly twenty five million Europeans. For those who were able to survive the plague it was not with out a cost. Most had to watch their loved ones suffer before passing and were unable to comfort them in any way.
Europe faced many difficulties during the 13th and early 14th century which was considered the dark ages, many things accrued during that time. There was war between England and France which lasted for a hundred years from 1337-1453 these claimed many lives between the British and the French people to this day they have not forgotten the tragedy befallen both countries. The Black Death
Throughout history, Europe has faced many adversities such as plagues that immediately impacted the people. The Justinian plague, which lasted from 541-549 AD, and the Black Death, which affected Europe from 1347-1351, are two such plagues that affected the societies of Europe. These plagues brought death tolls that affected the economy and military strength of countries. As a result of the Justian Plague, almost a third of the Byzantine population was wiped out. While many believe that plagues only brought about destruction, the plagues that affected Europe during the Middle Ages didn't only negatively influence the nations but also caused the region to enter a new age of prosperity.
A lot of them died during this time. Lots of the people could not find food so that led them to starve. Some of the settlers even dug up graves to eat the bodies of the dead people. The natives began to help the settlers by giving them food. The people
Because of that, a great famine spread across Europe like wild fire. It wasn’t until 1347 when an obscure disease called the Black Death was introduced by Genoese trade
Three episodes that occurred in the late medieval Eurasian world – the Crusades, the Mongols and the Black Death -- disrupted the country and society and changed the world forever. The Crusades that were the wars against religion of the Christians, Judaism and Islam, were fought to try to change people's religion to their cause. The Mongols were Barbarians who moved across Eurasia, conquering lands, bringing death, and bulldozing anything that stood in their way as they invaded. The Black Death disease devastated the people and the economy as it spread relentlessly across the land. Yet, out of the events that occurred in the late medieval Eurasian world, the Black Death caused the greatest disruption in the late medieval Eurasian world and
Many European courts and governments during the 14th century had collapsed at the beginning of the Great Famine and the outbreak of the Hundred Years’ War. Although these great events happened during the outbreak of the Black Death, they did not heavily affect on the population of Europe. For instance, the Great Famine of 1315, that had lasted only two years, had just killed a tenth of the population of Ypres (currently called Flanders) (maps.google.com). People in Halesowen (now currently called England) were dying and were scared that many of their relatives were dying. They were feeling very depressed as if it was the end of the world, because their population had greatly dropped by 15% during that period.
There is no question that hardship and scattering fear re-shaped the Europeans during the 14th century. To the Europeans, they were the generation that faced the true wrath of god. It was this rather that consumed them religiously, culturally, and economically. It is for these reasons, that the Europeans faced their downfall during this century at no fault of their own. Disasters have struck throughout history, but none so consequential or sparse and quickly as the Black Death of the 14th century.
The Black Death brought a period of growth to an end, and killed roughly a third of Europe’s population in just a few years. While the plague was present, a series of destructive wars were tearing apart trade and economy. Europe was repeatedly experiencing hard times and the Plague was when they just couldn't handle anything else (concourse). As more and more people died, it became much harder to find people to work fields, harvest crops, and produce other goods and services. Peasants began to demand higher wages.
As the Black Death traveled through Europe, it left thousands dead. From 1315 to 1322, the Great Famine caused starvation and death, weakening Europe’s population. Once the Black Death came into
It also brought crop failures to northern Europe. The Little Ice Age appears to have been strongest over the Northern Hemisphere 's continents. The Black Death was a terrible plague that destroyed a good amount of the population. It killed everything and everyone it infected. it arrived in the port of Messina on the docks
One drastic consequence was that the land available for cultivation decreased insanely due to the death of laborers who died because of the plague and this consequence lasted a long period of time. The plague also brought as a consequence the increase in the wage for artisans and peasants. The shortage of labor made Europeans substitute wages or money rents in place of labor services in an effort to keep their tenants. The plague changed the course of life in the middle ages because it bought changes like improvements in medical literature, programs of public sanitation, the fall of feudalism and other manorial systems and almost complete control of the Catholic Church.
A plague broke out and killed 50% - 60% of the population. It was devastating but it did change the world in many ways. In some ways it was helpful, in others it was not. Things got extremely messy. When the plague broke out in the Middle Ages, people started working together and looked at things with a more scientific mind.
