The Historical Impact of the Black Plague In the fourteenth century, plagues swept through Europe, killing a quarter of a million people and recurring approximately five times for nearly a century. It made humankind fully aware of life's brevity and of death's pitilessness. This "Black Death" changed history, placed a twelve-year-old-king on the throne and weakened the Church's grip on the people such that it never regained its full power. Events that would shock future …showed first 75 words of 1680 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1680 total…the cities. So the cities recuperated faster, due to this influx of people and the recovering birth rate. People moved back into rural areas as cities became overcrowded. (Knox 1) Although Europe's population was on the mend, it's other aspects such as religion, culture, politics and more were forever changed. The plague was geographically limited to Europe and parts of Asia, but it affected the whole world, which had never experienced such an inexplicable horror before.