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Wages, conditions, and rights for workers

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Wages, conditions, and rights for workers

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Wages increased because of the shortages of workers. The poor got riche making them able to afford more goods. The government did not like the the increased wage sand attempted to lower them back to the wages before the plague. Workers were very unhappy when the government attempted this.

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https://www.bbc.com/education/guides/z7r7hyc/revision/3

Ms Cross’s Resources

https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=141316

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Ability to access food - production of food, availability of food

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Ability to access food - production of food, availability of food

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Food availability was quite good for a while. Many people had died and there was a lot of leftover food. This meant people had enough food. After a while the food supply started to runout. The shortage of workers made it hard to keep up the demand for food and people started to starve as they could not find food.

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Living standards were poor for many reasons. It was very unclean this was very unhealthy. Peasants even lived with livestock in their houses. Some of the wealthy could afford leaving areas with the plague and death. This then would mean that those wealthy people that moved had good living standards. There was enough food because so many people had died and they had a lot of food. This would have increased living standards. Wages increased due to the low amount of workers giving serfs more money making them able to but things to increase the living standards.

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Population size in Europe after the plague

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Population size in Europe after the plague

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The population decreased drastically. Estimates say about have the population died. Thus population loss would have changed many things. For example living standards. The rich and the poor died during the plague. The population decreased between seventy-five to a hundred million.

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What was the outcome if you got the black death?

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What was the outcome if you got the black death?

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If you got the plague you were almost guaranteed to die. Depending on what type of the plague you got increased or lowered your chances of surviving. If you got the septicaemic plague you died and had no chance of surviving. The pneumonic plague gave you almost no chance. This meant that one out of ten people would survive this. The bubonic plague gave you a fifty percent chance which is pretty high.

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The treatments that the doctors tried had little to no effect. The doctors did not know anything about how to cure people of the plague. They attempted multiple things and none of them helped at all. Since doctors didn't know how to cure the plague it spread.The doctors tried random things to cure it. They knew nothing about what caused the plague. This didn't help.

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During the medieval ages doctors were incapable of treating the plague. Doctors tried many different things to treat the plague. They rubbed different things like onions and chopped up snakes on the sick body. The doctors would test urine colour and some would even taste it to see if they had the plague. These methods were all very ineffective to preventing the plague.

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Some of the symptoms to the plague were flu like symptoms which you had after three to seven days of exposure. Other symptoms were weakness, abdominal pain, and worst of all bleeding underneath the skin. The symptoms differed depending on what type of the plague you had.

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Link living conditions to the spread of disease

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Link living conditions to the spread of disease

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The cities were very crowded and fool of sewage which attracted rats which attracts fleas. These fleas have bacteria in them that cause the plague. Because everyone was so close, the plague could easily spread. The living conditions were not so good especially not good for when disease occured.

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What were negative changes to living standards?

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What were negative changes to living standards?

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As towns got bigger and turned into cities streets got more crowded and sewage was thrown onto the streets. These would not be very good because the streets would be very dirty, and These could spread disease. The tightly packed houses which create a fire hazard would lower living standards. They would lower living standards because the people would live in a less safe environment.

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What were positive changes to living standards?

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What were positive changes to living standards?

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Guilds helped. Merchant guilds made sure prices were equal and standards stayed high. New farming innovations helped make more food. More food made living standards better. The surplus of food meant people could survive birth. The food also made people live longer really increasing living standards. The crusades brought back new items and luxuries also making positive changes to living standards.

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Merchants got introduced which did not fit into the manorial system. Serfs could buy themselves free because lords needed money to pay the high taxes the king wanted. This changed the closed system into an open system. Merchants only paide the king instead of Lords. This weakened nobles and increased the power and wealth of the king.

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The surplus of food meant people could devote their energies to new craft and more trade. They didn't have to focus on survival and getting food since there was plenty of food. They could work on other things which they would get paid for. There were many opportunities to make their life better. This made people move into towns.

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Why did towns and cities develop & then grow?

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Why did towns and cities develop & then grow?

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Towns offered new economic opportunities and attracted more workers. This led to towns becoming bigger and often developing into cities. Even though many serfs were legally bound to their lord’s manor, they ran away and became free by living within a town. Many serfs, now free people, made better lives for themselves. The crusades were very expensive allowing serfs to buy themselves freedom. These serfs would move to towns making them grow.