In the long term, this situation would be aggravated by specific outbreaks of Black Death until the end of the Middle Ages. With the increase in prices, those with the fewest means endured hardship and suffering. In the short, the most noteworthy economic consequences of the disease were that the fields were not cultivated and the harvests rotted this in turn sparked an incipient shortage of agricultural products, which were only consumed by those people who could pay for them.
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Consequently, it can be said that the black death is the reason the Middle Ages come to an end. It is important to note that it is in this era, so clearly marked by the impact of the plague, when the large-scale construction of monasteries, churches and cathedrals peters out. The epidemic clearly caused economic effects which brought about the deepest ever recession in history. The direct impacts on economy and society were basically a reduction in production and in consumption. Generally speaking, a quarter of the population was wiped out, but in local settlements often half of the population was exterminated. However, the outbreaks were never as virulent as that of the Late Middle Ages. There continued to be major outbreaks of the plague until 1720, so that the disease was not completely eradicated until much later. In 1349 it reached Northern Europe, and, in 1350, Scandinavia and Russia.
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By 1348, it had already reached the Western Mediterranean and with the summer heat was spreading to Western Europe but was halted by the onset of the winter. The following winter, it was spread by Genovese traders to Constantinople and Italy. In 1347, the arrival of the Black Death to Crimea was already chronicled. It was a disease spread through contact with animals ( zoonosis), basically through fleas and other rat parasites (at that time, rats often coexisted with humans, thus allowing the disease to spread so quickly).
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The Black Death was an epidemic which ravaged Europe between 13.