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.

john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.

i am sure the answer is d