Question

What were the crises of the 14th century?

Answer 1

What were the crisis of the 14th century?

The crisis of 14th century were the series of events which resulted in a halt in the growth as well as prosperity of Europe. These were a series of events that had such repercussions. The. Major crises leading to such situations were the

• Demographic collapse
• The religious upheavals
• Political instabilities

By around 14th century, there had started to become a collapse of the demographic arrangement as there had was an end that was approaching to the internal colonisation along with a seizure of expansion of frontiers. Though, populations were high.

There were number of famines as well as plague, which led to the great famine of 1315-1317 which resulted in death of a large number of black people that resulted in almost half the population. This susceptibility to infections increases as a result of weak immunity which came following malnutrition. Famine had struck majorly parts of the north west Europe.

The unity that existed between the Roman Catholic Church had a major blow by the incoming of the western schism. Also, there were civil wars, and international wars that all together comprised of such crisis.