The Black Death

Yersina pestis

This caused the plauge

lice and fleas carry it

• rats carry lice and fleas

followed trade routes

Statue of Laborers 1361

peasants demanded more pay

• noblemen tried to hold the people down

forbade people from wanting more salary than before the plauge

people who paid more to the peasants got fined

Sumptuary Laws

restrictions on what people can wear

gold, silks, can only be worn by people who are rich

keeps the classes stratified

• also able to tell whos a noble and whos not

Peasants revolt (1381)

½ of the country was in revolt

• lands abanoned and things were burned

“When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?”

• argued that all people came from the first laborers

• social classes and fudal servitude was unnatrual and unjust

peasants were super disorganized

• royals got through and ended it all

widened the gap between the rich and the poor

Ars Moriendi

Hoe to die a good death

how to live a good life

• dance with death

Malthusian Crisis

arrival and human auto regulate

resource infighting

• for food

• real estate

• man made terrors

food production grows arithmetically, leading to inevitable, catastrophic "positive checks" (famine, war, disease) to restore balance.