The Black Death had several consequences including cultural, religious and economic influences. These changes were both positive and negative and contributed to conditions favorable to the decline of feudalism, the end of the Middle Ages and the emergence of the Renaissance.
Pandemics, diseases which spread to most populated regions with a high degree of mortality, have been recorded several times in world history, the first being the Plague of Justinian in 541 CE. The Black Death, also known as the Second Pandemic, was one of the most catastrophic events in human history.
