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Name: Professor: Subject: Date: The RenaissanceThe late medieval age was the period after the high middle age and preceded the modern ages. Although the high middle ages had been marked by improved agricultural production and farming practices, the late middle ages started with crises. Poor climate and soil degradation reduced agricultural production immensely. The crisis was worsened by the bubonic plague/the black death which killed a significant portion of the population. The endemic wars between England and France and the invasion of eastern Europe by the Mongols were also significant events that changed society in the late middle ages. The black death struck Europe between 1347 and 1353. It is estimated that it killed 1/3 of the European population. The black death set forth a lot of cultural and economic changes in Europe. Following the rapid decline in population due to the plague, the labor declined, and farms were abandoned. This resulted in a very high cost of labor. The black death resulted in changes in medical and public health that lay the basis for modern medical practices. Emphasis was made on clinical practices based on physical science. As a result, there was an increase in higher education in Europe at the time. Additionally, out of the misery of the death's people in Europe begun to turn to superstition and astrology. People lost faith in God feeling they had been abandoned. Overall, the black death had a great effect on the economy and culture of Europe in the late medieval ages. The hundred-year war was one of the most significant events on the late middle ages. It was a series of conflicts between kings and nobles of France and England
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