Unit 6: Paper 2 — Society and Economy (750–1400)
Topic 6.3: Crisis and change (c1300–1400) Questions
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What was the main purpose of the English Statute of Labourers of 1351?
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Which 1351 English law tried to keep wages at pre-plague levels?
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Which two Italian city-states are named as gaining control of long-distance trade by 1400?
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Examine the reasons why fourteenth-century Europe was so vulnerable to famine and plague.
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Which two forms of plague spread during the Black Death, and how did each mainly spread?
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Compare and contrast the causes of the Peasants' Revolt in England (1381) and the Jacquerie in France (1358).
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During which three consecutive years did the harvest failures of the Great Famine occur?
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Analyse the ways in which the fourteenth-century crisis broke down the institutions and social order of medieval Europe.
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The French peasant rising of 1358 is known by which name?
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Examine the role of leadership and ideas in the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381.
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Which French military defeat weakened the nobility and helped provoke the Jacquerie?
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Examine the impact of the Black Death on the Church and religious life in fourteenth-century Europe.
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Evaluate the importance of climate as a cause of the Great Famine of 1315–17.
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Discuss the social and religious responses of Europeans to the Black Death.
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Discuss the impact of the Hundred Years' War on social unrest in fourteenth-century France.
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Analyse the shifts in trade, towns and economic power between Western Europe and the Islamic world by 1400.
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Evaluate the importance of the Statute of Labourers (1351) as a cause of social unrest in fourteenth-century England.
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To what extent was the Mongol conquest, rather than the Black Death, responsible for the decline of the Abbasid world?
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What proportion of Europe's population is estimated to have died during the Black Death of 1347–51?
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Examine the economic consequences of the Black Death in fourteenth-century Europe.
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