ere both direct and indirectly the victims of this societal war. In 14th Century Europe the Black Plague took the land by storm leaving the survival rate at around 50 – 70 % of the population. Because of the great polarization in this feudal system, the nobles who depended on their peasants were no longer supported by their cheap labor. Because the labor populace was dying in record numbers, the system's foundation collapsed. As modern economics explains, the decrease in the supply of workers causes wages to increase so as to accommodate the increase in quantity demanded. There is the same amount of money to pay a lesser amount of workers who in turn put their lives in greater risk by working out in public, on docks, in fields, (near the rats) etc. where the disease was know to be rampant. Although they did put their life in jeopardy, the peasants did indirectly receive an economic benefit from the Black Death, higher wages but more importantly the beginning of the disintegr
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