After a period of development and prosperity, Europe faced a number of problems in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. First and foremost of these was the Black Death, a plague that devastated Europe in the middle of the fourteenth century. Out of a pre-plague population of 75 million, the Black Death killed around ______ (38 million, 9 million, 18 million) Europeans between 1347 and 1351. After the plague subsided, food ______ (increased, declined) in price and labor ______ (increased, decreased) in price, leading to an acrimonious relationship between the laboring and landowning classes. Two other issues that negatively affected European stability and progress were the Hundred Years' War, fought between ______ (england and france,germany and france, italy and france) , and the ______ (decline, rise) in power of the Catholic Church.

After a period of development and prosperity, Europe faced a number of problems in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. First and foremost of these was the Black Death, a plague that devastated Europe in the middle of the fourteenth century. Out of a pre-plague population of 75 million, the Black Death killed around (38 million, 9 million, 18 million) Europeans between 1347 and 1351. After the plague subsided, food (increased, declined) in price and labor (increased, decreased) in price, leading to an acrimonious relationship between the laboring and landowning classes. Two other issues that negatively affected European stability and progress were the Hundred Years' War, fought between (england and france,germany and france, italy and france) , and the __ (decline, rise) in power of the Catholic Church.