Final answer:
After the Plague in the 13th century, living conditions for surviving unfree peasants improved in certain ways. Nobles offered better wages and living conditions to settlers. Peasant wages increased and serfdom gradually disappeared in Western Europe.
Step-by-step explanation:
After the Plague in the 13th century, the living conditions for surviving unfree peasants improved in certain ways. With fewer people, they had access to more lands and resources. Nobles, needing peasants to work their lands, offered better wages and living conditions to settlers. As a result, peasant wages increased and serfdom gradually disappeared in Western Europe. However, European rulers passed laws to fix wages at pre-Plague levels, in order to protect the interests of noble landowners. For example, an English law in 1349 required laborers to accept wages at 1346 levels. Despite these attempts to restore the status quo, peasant wages rose and serfdom declined.