Jack is writing an essay about Europe during the Middle Ages. Read the paragraph about the rise of cities, and choose the correct phrases to complete the sentences. After the Black Death ended, people started to move to the cities. Florence was one of the first cities to get the plague, and it was the first to recover. One of the main reasons people moved to cities was that cities weren’t affected by famine. As more people moved from rural areas, the began declining. Nobles has less power, and wealthy business people gained more power.
Answer choices:
-Black Death
-feudal system
-merchant princes