Context: The Late Middle Ages represented a period of upheaval in Europe. The epidemic known as the Black Death and an associated famine caused demographic catastrophe in Europe as the population plummeted. Dynastic struggles and wars of conquest kept many of the states of Europe at war for much of the period. In the Balkans, the Ottoman Empire, a Turkish state originating in Anatolia, encroached steadily on former Byzantine lands, culminating in the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.

Question: What era was characterized by turmoil in Europe?
Answer: The Late Middle Ages

Question: What disease plagued Europe during the Late Middle Ages?
Answer: the Black Death

Question: Which new regime appeared in the Balkan region during the Late Middle Ages?
Answer: the Ottoman Empire

Question: When did the Ottoman Empire conquer Constantinople?
Answer: 1453

Question: What era was characterized by the Ottoman Empire?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What disease plagued former Byzatine lands in the Late Middle Ages?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Which new regime appeared in the Constantinople region during the Late Middle Ages?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: When did the Ottoman Empire liberate Constantinople from the Balkans?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What kept states of Europe in a famine?
Answer: Unanswerable