<span>The rulers who followed him could not defend the empire against new waves of invasions.</span>
Answer: Austria and Hungary
Explanation: The former empire of Austria-Hungary was dissolved, and new nations were created from its land: Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia. The Ottoman Turks had to give up much of their land in southwest Asia and the Middle East.
It is an act or agency by which an effect is produced.
Murder, probably, I have seen it on live tv.