How Did The Bubonic Plague Affect Society

The Black Death infected an extensive part of the world with the disastrous bubonic plague. In addition to the Black Death spreading around Europe, it spread to Africa and the Middle East. The plague was first reported in Caffa, Crimea. The plague then spread to Sicily, Genoa, Venice, Pisa, and Marseilles. As the disease rapidly spread, it spread to France, Portugal, Spain, England, Germany, and Scandinavia. The plague did not slow down, it kept spreading to more people in different places. The plague spread as far north as Russia in 1351. In the Middle East, the plague spread to Alexandria in Egypt, Gaza, Constantinople, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Ashkelon, Acre, Jerusalem, Sidon, Damascus, Homs, Aleppo, Antioch, and peoples of Asia Minor. The Black Death was spreading worldwide, there was nothing anybody could do about it. People tried to escape the plague, but it was inevitable. The Black Death spread all over, causing damage to countless cities in the world.
When the plague hit Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, it killed seventy-five to a hundred million people. It wasn’t rare to see that villages were abandoned and whole families were eliminated due to the plague. There was nobody to grow and harvest crops, trade and traveling stopped, and food and manufacturing goods slowed down, as well. The economy was at a dangerously low point. People had no money, so peasants demanded to get paid more to work. Employers needed the work done to make money, so they met up with the demands of peasants. People had to beg and steal money and food, because of the devastation the plague caused them. The plague broke down social class systems, everyone who was either rich or poor is now considered “middle class.” It took a hundred and fifty years for Europe’s population to be like what it was before the plague hit. The Black Death caused a substantial amount of economic instability in