World History › Section N · Crisis and new empires, 1300-1500 › Topic N.4
Long-term effects of the fourteenth-century crisis
Famine, plague and war left fewer people sharing the same land. The result was not one single outcome but many: higher wages and failed revolts in England, harsher rule in Egypt, a split papacy, stronger kings, and new religious movements across Afro-Eurasia.
In this topic
- A world with fewer people
- Labour becomes scarce
- Lords push back
- Revolts from below
- Worked example: why did serfdom fade in the west but not the east?
- Worked example: Egypt and England compared
- War and royal power
- A divided Church
- Living with death
- Beyond Europe
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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