Question

How did the black death effect the people and the infrastructure?

Answer 1

Trade suffered for a time, and wars were temporarily abandoned. Many labourers died, which devastated families through lost means of survival and caused personal suffering; landowners who used labourers as tenant farmers were also affected.

Answer 2

Answer:

How did the Black Death affect cities?

Those cities hit with the plague shrank, leading to a decrease in demand for goods and services and reduced productive capacity. As laborers became more scarce, they were able to demand higher wages. This had several major effects: Serfdom began to disappear as peasants had better opportunities to sell their labor.