Why Did European Population Decline

“The size of Europe Population was around eighty million and it decrease to fifty million after the black plague had hit (Ole J. Bendeictow)”. With the black plague taking reducing the population it caused Europe fifty years to recover from their loss. The importance of the Europe’s population decline from the black plague it resulted in a better and cheaper value on the labour. In 1381 it was followed right after that value to increase it caused the peasants to revolt and the farming to change. As the farming started to change and it caused the small landowners to become bigger land owners. This caused the larger land owners to have to pay the peasants even more just so they can stay on due to low unemployment change. With the fall in population some landowners also had to sell their land due to the fact that they could not get the rental income that they needed to provide during this time period. This caused the redistribution of land ownership to influence the supply on the social and political authority. The decline help increase the wool industry and it
Since most individuals were getting sick they were getting a shortage on workers which caused the prices to soar and causing extreme inflation. Labor shortage was strict and wages started too higher from the lack of peasants. Due to all of the deaths there was an over an excess amount of goods for others and the prices started to drop. It was not safe to produce any goods through trade so prices of them that was produced locally and imported from outside of Europe increased tremendously. As there was a decline in farming it caused food shortage and led to famine. This led to more people dying and of being more perished. With the wages going up, prices increasing, and the labor shortage being severe it caused the standard of living to rise really high for the individuals who was still alive from the black