Compare And Contrast The Major Economic Changes To The Middle Ages

During the transition from the European Middle Ages to the Late Middle Ages, the Crusades and Bubonic Plague brought major economic changes but retained the use of social classes. Some such economic changes brought on by the Crusades and/or Bubonic Plague was the shift from a decrease in trade to an increase in commerce, a population decrease due to the pandemic disease, and a scarcity of workers due to the population decrease; socially there was a strong social hierarchy before and after those two major events.

Economic changes were numerous. An increase in commerce began as the Crusaders came across a variety of unfamiliar luxury goods (silk, sugar, spices, etc.). After the Crusades, Europe was in demand for more of those items ,sand, therefore