The plague hit Europe in 1347 killing nearly one third of the population. It killed everyone from kings to nobles to peasants. From all the social classes that the plague killed the peasant’s survivors stood the most to gain. As a result of the plague the lives of the peasants improved greatly. The three effects of the plague that improved the lives of peasants are the destruction of the feudalism system, the ready availability of land, and increased wages for labor.
The first way it improved the lives of the surviving peasants was it got rid of the feudal system. Under the feudal system regional nobles pledged their allegiance to a central king but had a say in the way they managed their property and lands. The king and nobles fo
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