Louis Pasteur contributed to society by discovering vaccination and microbial fermentation.
Answer:
weak and in decline
Explanation:
I think weak and in decline
"At the start of World War I, the Ottoman Empire was already in decline. The Ottoman army entered the war in 1914 on the side of the Central Powers (including Germany and Austria-Hungary) and were defeated in October 1918. ... The Ottoman empire officially ended in 1922 when the title of Ottoman Sultan was eliminated."
The depression was caused by a number of serious weaknesses in the economy. ... America's "Great Depression" began with the dramatic crash of the stock market on "Black Thursday", October 24, 1929 when 16 million shares of stock were quickly sold by panicking investors who had lost faith in the American economy.