Question

1) Give one thing you can infer from Source 1 about Black Death

2) Explain one consequence of Black Death
HINT: Remember this question wants you to explain what happened because of the Black Death. Use phrases like ‘as a result of this’ or ‘the effect of this was’ or ‘this led to’.
When you are explaining the consequence, you need to make sure that you include lots of detail explaining the effect that the Black Death had.

Answer 1

1) Poor public health. Medieval towns had no system of drains, sewers or rubbish collections. In such dirty conditions, rats lived and germs could grow.

2) Deaths. Estimates differ, but most historians believe that the Black Death killed half the population of Europe. In some places, eg the village of West Thickley in County Durham, it killed everybody. this led to the death-rate going bad in monasteries, where the monks stayed together and cared for each other. Some historians (Benedictow 2004) suggest that the wealthier classes were less affected due to their wealth enabling them to flee from outbreaks.
led to the plague exceedingly spreading.