You have a surplus of food because you have less people that are eating. Wages are going to go up as well because there's less workers that are available. So you're going to have kind of a burgeoning middle class that eventually is going to spread from this. Not to mention that not in the too far off distance, the Black Death is going to result in a questioning of the Catholic Church if they couldn't stop this. It's really putting the roots down not only for the Protestant revolution, but also for the scientific revolution that we can't just rely on the word of the Bible to figure these things out. That we're going to have to have some type of scientific method to figure these things out as well. There's also the very cool mask that comes in later.