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Zorluk: Çok zorThe Black Death and Social Change

Following the arrival of the Black Death in Britain in 1348, the country experienced a massive demographic collapse. Which of the following best describes the resulting socioeconomic shift that fundamentally contributed to the decline of the feudal system?

  1. The severe shortage of labor empowered surviving peasants to demand higher wages and greater mobility, undermining the traditional land-based obligations of the manorial system.Cevap
  2. B
    The plague's arrival in 1248 caused such high mortality among the nobility that the monarch was forced to abolish the feudal hierarchy and redistribute all land to the surviving merchant class.
  3. C
    The social upheaval strengthened the feudal system by forcing peasants to seek greater protection from their lords, leading to the permanent freezing of wages at pre-plague levels through the Statute of Laborers.
  4. D
    The high death rate among the rural population in the 1400s led to a surplus of food and land, which allowed the upper nobility to consolidate their power and tighten the restrictions on peasant movement.

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The correct answer describes how the labor shortage caused by the Black Death allowed peasants to demand higher wages and move away from the land they were tied to, leading to the decline of feudalism.
The correct answer identifies that the arrival of the Black Death in 1348 created a labor shortage so severe that landowners had to offer higher wages to attract workers. This enabled peasants to leave the lands they were previously bound to, effectively dismantling the feudal system and the institution of serfdom.

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1
Identify the timeline and immediate impact of the plague.
The Black Death arrived in 1348 and killed approximately one-third of the population of Great Britain and Ireland.
Establishing the date and the scale of the tragedy is the first step in understanding the magnitude of the social change.
2
Analyze the economic consequence of a reduced population.
Fewer people meant a critical shortage of labor for farming the land.
Labor supply and demand is the core driver behind the social shifts that followed.
3
Evaluate the response of the surviving workforce.
Survivors realized their value and began demanding higher wages and better conditions.
The scarcity of workers shifted the balance of power from the landowners to the laborers.
4
Connect these changes to the structural decline of feudalism.
Peasants left their home manors to seek higher pay, breaking the 'tied to the land' rule of the feudal system.
Feudalism relied on a static, bound workforce; mobility and wage negotiation effectively destroyed its foundation.

Anahtar Kavram

The Black Death as a catalyst for the end of serfdom and the rise of a wage-based economy.

Daha Fazla Pratik

Research the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 to see how these economic tensions eventually led to direct political conflict.
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