They were protesting Parliament
Answer:
Disease, war, and possibly weakened government
Explanation:
Today Constantinople is known to the world as Istanbul: the biggest and most western (both culturally and geographically) city in Turkey.
For some time it was the capital of the Byzantine Empire (before it was the capital of the Ottoman Empire) - so the correct answer is Byzantium
The human species first appeared in Africa... The first settlements, however, were in the middle east