black death

• 75 million people died of the Black death
• 50% of Europe's population was wiped out
• 1500 people were executed after the peasants revolt including John Ball
• 70 years after the revolt peasants began to gain better rights
• John Ball


  A priest who preached equality during the peasants revolt
• Richard II


  The king during the time of the Peasants revolt
• John of Gaunt


  The king's uncle who ruled on his behalf
• Simon Sudbury


  Archbishop of Canterbury
• Watt Tyler


  The leader of the peasants revolt
• Origin of the Black Death

  1. Originated from Mongolia

  2. First arrived in Europe to Sicily

  3. Bacteria that infected fleas and carried on rats

  4. These traveled on ships across trading routes
• The peasants were unhappy with paying a month's wage in Poll tax and attacked the tax collectors in Fobbing
• The black death in Europe

  1347-1351
• The peasants revolt


  1381
• King John met with rebels at Smithfield and a truce was agreed


  15th June 1381
• Black Death


  A pandemic that raged through Europe between 1347-1351
• Plague


  A bacterial disease that caused a huge death toll
• Feudal system


  A social and political system whereby land was given in return for loyalty and taxes
• Villein


  A free commoner / feudal tenant
• Poll tax


  A tax that everyone must give to the king for something specific
• Statute of Labourers


  Reduced peasants wages to pre-black death amounts
• Revolt


  Refusing to be controlled or ruled