Over the same period, certain other factorsâfor example, higher energy costsâhad a greater effect on food prices than did the use of ethanol as a motor fuel.â. Congressional Budget Office, The Impact of Ethanol Use on Food Prices and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions, April 2009.
Thousands of innocent Jews, who had also suffered from the plague, were slaughtered in dozens of European communities. Social and Economic Effects of the Black Death. Some social changes caused by the Black Death were positive. Before the plague, peasant serfs were confined to their lord's estate and received little or no payment for their work. Overpopulation and shortage of resources led to malnutrition and extreme poverty for many peasants.
Depending on the region of Europe that you're talking about, the Black Death killed between 40 and 70% of people. That's huge. Imagine that for a second: 70% of everyone that you have ever met dying. Something that big makes an impact on every crevice and aspect of society. Let's just take Europe's art world as an example of one aspect of society that was affected by the Black Death: The Effect of the Black Death on Visual Art: Before the Black Death paintings and visual art is often very religious, sometimes depicting images of death.