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Effects like what? (Fall in population level is not a result, it's like saying "Great Depression caused GDP decline").
Compared to killing half of world population, the effects were ridiculously close to zero. There's no discontinuity in history before and after late 1340s. No major country fell, let alone entire civilization. Social structures were what they used to be. No major region changed its religion. Society stayed as it was. Nearly nothing happened.
I believe the fall of the Byzantine Empire was partially caused by black plague.
No, Byzantine Empire was broken by battle of Manzikert in 1071, and then by Fourth Crusade in 1204. After that it was hardly an "Empire" any more - it was a minor country surrounded by much bigger powers.
And the plague story doesn't work at all - Byzantium fell over a century after the plague.