How did the black death affect peasants in Europe?

Answer 1

The short answer is economics. The tremendous loss of population resulted in a severe labor shortage. That caused wages to rise, and hence prices rose. The nobility, who owned most of the land, enacted laws to keep wages low. That meant the peasants were faced with low wages but high prices for basics like food. That pushed them in to desperate straights. Thus they revolted. there were other factors at work which make it more complicated than that, but that is the simple answer.

Answer 2

The Bubonic Plague affect the peasents really hard because they were the ones most exposed to the bacteria that caused it. Many died from it. Tens of thousands apon millions died form it.

Answer2

After the plague had died off, and a lot of Europe's population were dead, peasants who survived were mostly free and could live like the wealthy people whom they had been working for, they got land and with the land a home and an income to be made from their land

It gave rise to peasants and 'the working mans' rights

The wealthy (landowners/lords) survivors found that, due to amount of people that died they either had to do the work themselves, (ie tend their crops, washing their linen, which with lots of land and garden and jobs to do was a bit impossible) or pay peasants higher, treat them fairly and even give them a home.

Answer 3

The peasants thought that God was punishing them for sins. They also thought that people of different religions had poisoned their water or because of the close position of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in 1345.

Answer 4

The peasants revolted a couple hundred years after the plague.

Answer 5

More food, water, more land, higher wages and lower rents.

Answer 6

The resurgence of trade

Answer 7

How did the Black Death benefit the peasants