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What Happened to Europe's Economy After the Black Death

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The Effects of the Plague on Productivity

As the plague roars through, as people die, you can let this marginal land go out of wheat cultivation. Diots get better after the plague, because you have more land that you can be grazing these animals on. You can keep the meat on the hoof. In England, you see an expansion of the of the wool economy,. even beyond what it had been before. English wool had already been in high demand.

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