FEUDALISM DECLINES. “In the decades following the pandemic, Europe experienced significant economic, social, scientific, and religious changes. Increased wages empowered peasants, causing serfdom to disappear in many places, triggering the decline of manorialism. The demand for labor was so high it threatened manorial holdings. Serfs, no longer tied to one landlord, could easily leave for another who would hire them.”
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