Originally called Byzantium, and now known as Istanbul, ________ became the world's largest settlement after the decline of Rome, and remained the largest settlement for most of the next 1,000 years

A) Baghdad
B) Tehran
C) Damascus
D) Constantinople
E) Mecca


Answer: D

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