Which group in the Feudal System seemed to benefit the most from the Black Death?

What percentage of Walsham is estimated to have survived the Black Death?

Giving the profit from their hard work straight to the nobility.

If a peasant inherited land what could they stop doing? (Choose one)

As the amount of people decreased, the nobles could not collect as many taxes.

The amount of people to farm the land decreased.

The nobility had to increase wages so they could keep peasants working for them.

There were less peasants for the nobility to look after.

With fewer peasants in the village, levels of crime decreased.

What problems did the Black Death cause the nobility? (Choose three)

Gave more power to the peasants because of their hard labour.

Gave more power to the peasants because they owned more land.

Restricted the amount of power that peasants had by increasing food prices.

Restricted the amount of power that peasants had by limiting their wages.

How did the Ordinance of Labourers affect peasants?

Key Stage 3

The Survivors and Land Ownership

In what direction did the Black Death spread across the globe?

That God had sent the Black Death as punishment for their sins.

They believed the Black Death was spread through poisonous air.

They thought God created the Black Death to reduce the amount of people on Earth.

How did people in Walsham-le-Willows believe God was connected to the Black Death?

Medieval people donated to the church so that they would be blessed by God.

People attended the church more regularly to pray to God for forgiveness.

People did not think that the disease would spread within the church.

The Church had scientific knowledge of how to stop the disease.

Why did the Church gain more power as the Black Death spread? (Tick two)

Miasma is the work given when people confess their sins.

That the Black Death spreads by people touching one another.

The belief that the Black Death spreads through poisonous air.

He had been a nasty member of the village who charge people lots of money for rent.

He had been a visitor from an infected village.

It was rumored that he had been a victim of the Black Death.

Why did hardly anyone attend Mansur Shucford's funeral?