Famines, plague, war, and rebellion leveled Europe’s most developed bourgeois regions

Evidence

The momentous events of which we speak were: the periodic famines that struck Europe in this period, the Black Death of the mid-fourteenth century and subsequent years, the Hundred Years War (1337–1453), and the rebellions of peasants and artisans. Together they had a devastating impact on western Europe and the Mediterranean—decimating the populations of cities and countryside alike, disrupting trade, collapsing industry and agricultural production—leveling, as it were, the bulk of the most developed regions of western European bourgeois activity. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 162

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 162
• XREF: connects to: Fourteenth-century crises determined which bourgeoisies would create global capitalism; Europe’s late medieval crisis had contested causes but clear contraction effects

Broader Connections

• Europe’s late medieval crisis had contested causes but clear contraction effects #corroborates (0.80)