The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague

The Economics of the Black Death (1x20)

Ausstrahlung: Okt 31, 2016

Investigate how the plague initially brought massive loss of labor, administrative manpower, and the tax base, as well as far-reaching disruption of farming. Grasp the process by which economic opportunities for the lower and merchant classes-including women-were transformed, and how those who survived were, in most cases, much wealthier than before.