How did the black death contribute to the decline of medieval feudalism?

a) by encouraging expansion of farms

b) by reducing wealth of minor lords

c) by spurring migration from cities

d) by driving down wages and prices

Black Death contributed to the decline of medieval feudalism by reducing wealth of minor lords.

Further Explanation:-

Black Death brought economy to upside down. The Black Death disrupted trade and manufacturing was put on hold because skilled artisans and merchants died in numbers of thousands. Because of this issue, there were only little number of skilled workers left but the wages of these workers went to all time high as arable land lay followed landlords as well as desperate people who wanted to work on their land as they were forced to renegotiate the wages of the farmers. These deaths also accumulated strict heredity class divisions which were there for the centuries by peasants and local land owners. During this period, there were many people who struggled to know that what was happening as western Europe there was a terrified populace which often turned towards their faith of Christianity and because of that, The church became richerbecause of those stricken, thought that they will sent to heaven  if they willed their property to church.

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Grade – High School

Subject – History

Chapter –The Black Death

Keywords –The Black Death, Church, Wealthy, Workers, Wages, Skilled, Desperate, Centuries, Peasants, Land owners, Merchants.  

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