Europe and the World without the Black Plague

Two scenarios here.

A) What does Europe look like without the Black Plague of the 1340s and how does the World look today as a result?

B) What happens if the Plague of Justinian, also thought to be possibly Black Plague, never occurs?
 
I don't know about B), but with A) there may eventually be a Malthusian collapse in Europe without the plague reducing the population and keeping it low. There will also be increased social stratification throughout OTL's Medieval era (though the very concept of a "Medieval Era" and a "Renaissance" is butterflied away), with labor being cheap and plentiful and therefore people at the bottom of the social hierarchy being seen as more expendable.

Some of the African societies which collapsed with the plague and left no written records may survive to the present day, perhaps growing into powerful civilizations. The Greenland Colony may not be abandoned, as land will be difficult to come by in Norway and so not draw emigration from that colony. Without collapsing, the Greenlanders may continue to sail to North America to harvest wood and bog iron, and this world's equivalent of the Columbian exchange may occur in the late 1300's-1400's as crowded and starving Scandinavians and Brits make through Iceland and Greenland to Vinland to settle the Americas.
 
I don't know enough to answer (A), but with (B), the Byzantines would probably be able to bring their Italian war to a close sooner, and to hold onto the peninsula after it's conquered. This in turn would greatly boost the Empire's strategic depth against enemies from the east, in particular the Sassanids and Arabs. Seeing this, the Persians might not attack the Empire in 602, or if they do the Byzantines might not come so close to collapse, meaning that the war follows the usual pattern of a few sieges and battles in Syria/northern Mesopotamia followed by a compromise peace, rather than being the quarter-century slug-fest it ended up being. Accordingly when the Islamic caliphate starts trying to expand out of Arabia neither the Byzantines nor the Sassanids would be anywhere near as exhausted as OTL, meaning that they'd probably be able to defeat any invasion from Arabia. It's difficult to say what would happen after this, because the butterflies would be so huge.
 
I don't know about B), but with A) there may eventually be a Malthusian collapse in Europe without the plague reducing the population and keeping it low. There will also be increased social stratification throughout OTL's Medieval era (though the very concept of a "Medieval Era" and a "Renaissance" is butterflied away), with labor being cheap and plentiful and therefore people at the bottom of the social hierarchy being seen as more expendable.

Some of the African societies which collapsed with the plague and left no written records may survive to the present day, perhaps growing into powerful civilizations. The Greenland Colony may not be abandoned, as land will be difficult to come by in Norway and so not draw emigration from that colony. Without collapsing, the Greenlanders may continue to sail to North America to harvest wood and bog iron, and this world's equivalent of the Columbian exchange may occur in the late 1300's-1400's as crowded and starving Scandinavians and Brits make through Iceland and Greenland to Vinland to settle the Americas.

Someone please do a time line on this.
 
The social knock ons are massive. The Plague laid the groundwork for Early Modern Europe's relative labour scarcity, which arguably lies at the heart of European cultural, economic, and political development before the Industrial Revolution.
 
The plague creating a labor shortage with roughly 33% of the population dying. The competition for labor led to a collapse of the feudal system as serfs who left their manor were welcomed elsewhere whether another manor or a city. At the same time all sorts of land was opened up with death, and this also hurt the feudal system as the King had fewer nobility to support him. Also the plague which struck the good as well as the evil caused both the emergence of groups like the flagellants as well as undermining the power of the Church, helping to make a fertile field for the Protestant movements.
 
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