What Benefits have come from the Black Death?

The black death was the cause of the peasants revolt
and many other riots that helped shape our world

Before the Black Death struck in the 13^th century, the streets and the cities were overcrowded with people, animals and rubbish. But after the plague left in the 1350’s one third (25-50 million) of Europe’s population had died out.  Although this is only a rough guess and it is not known exactly how many people died, thousands of mass graves have been uncovered all through Europe and England filled with countless bodies of plague victims. Despite the fact that millions of people were wiped out by the Black Death, many benefits have come from it such as better doctors and a wider understanding of medicine and diseases. In the middle ages, Doctors had more faith in magic and religion and most did not believe that science could help cure an illness. But after the Black Death struck more people started becoming interested in diseases and medicine and if it wasn't for that, doctors today might still be using frogs and poisons to cure diseases. The Black Death also completely reshaped the way England and the world worked and was the cause of the peasant’s revolt.  During the middle ages peasants worked long hard hours and acquired very little money. Many died while they were working and most could not earn enough money to feed their families which resulted in them having to steal to support them. But after the Black Death, the surviving workers earned more money as the lords were short of labourers to work for them.This also resulted in more machinery  being invented to make up for the lost workers.The Black Death was destroyed in England in 1350 after a massive fire burnt down most buildings, rats, fleas and bodies but made recurrences through history although none were as bad as the first and most people were now aware on what needed to be done to stop it from spreading.  

The children's nursery rhyme
Ring a ring a Rosie is based on
the Black Death   

The popular children’s nursery rhyme Ring a ring a Rosie is also based on the Black Death, although many people argue with this. The first verse, Ring a ring a Rosie stands for the red, ring shaped rash victims would get in the first few day of catching the disease, a pocket full of posies is the flowers and herbs people would carry around in their pocket to keep the plague away (paragraph 2, How did fourteenth-century living conditions and the state of medical knowledge leave the population defenceless against serious disease?), atishoo, atishoo is the victims sneezing and we all fall down is when they would finally die. The American version replaces  atishoo atishoo with ashes ashes which refers to the cremation of bodies.                                                                                    

This you tube clip interrupts the lyrics of Ring a ring a Rosie  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaspFUkcPjo