One impact was that wages more than doubled, and serfdom became obsolete because of the need for workers.
Perhaps that explains the elites’ mad drive for mass immigration into the West.
Only counts if you were amongst the living. Even then, that was years later but the disruption was almost immediate! Just think of no clergy and no one to dig the graves for your loved ones.
Yeah, the Black Death was an ongoing bloodletting (Plague outbreaks continued into Jacobean times at least, in Britain) that led to the breakdown in the old feudal order (and coincidentally, to the Society for Creative Anachronism, Renaissance faires, and movies like "King Richard and the Crusades"), the rise in workers working for wages, revival of invention, urbanization, accountable gov't, modern banking, and a rise in learning and the arts, along with pogroms against the Jews, the Reformation, the Fall of Constantinople, and the Age of Sail. Ultimately, the colonization of the Americas and the birth of many of us (and perhaps all of us, irrespective of where we live or where our ancestors did) reading this right now.