Unit 6: Paper 2 — Society and Economy (750–1400)
Topic 6.3: Crisis and change (c1300–1400) Questions
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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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Which two forms of plague spread during the Black Death, and how did each mainly spread?
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During which three consecutive years did the harvest failures of the Great Famine occur?
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Which French military defeat weakened the nobility and helped provoke the Jacquerie?
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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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Which climatic change is identified as the underlying trigger of the Great Famine of 1315–17?
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Approximately what proportion of Western Europe's population did the Black Death of 1348–49 kill?
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Roughly how large was Europe's population by around 1300, at the point historians describe as its Malthusian limit?
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Which tax is most closely associated with triggering the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381?
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Which Egyptian historian recorded the huge death tolls the plague caused in cities like Cairo and Damascus?
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Approximately what proportion of Europe's population is estimated to have died in the Black Death of 1347-1351?
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In which year did the Mongols under Hülegü Khan sack Baghdad and end Abbasid rule?
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Examine the reasons why fourteenth-century Europe was so vulnerable to famine and plague.
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Discuss the view that the Great Famine left Europe unable to resist the Black Death.
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The French peasant rising of 1358 is known by which name?
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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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Examine the economic consequences of the Black Death in fourteenth-century Europe.
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Discuss the reasons why the same plague produced opposite long-term results in Western Europe and the Islamic world.
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What was the main purpose of the English Statute of Labourers of 1351?
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