Respuesta :
The Byzantine empire in the 5th century was facing this:
D.
Its development was impeded by wars and social division
Explanation:
The Byzantine empire had gone through a particularly hard period in their history in the 5th century when there were many barbaric invasions across their land and also in the roman empire too.
The Visigoths, Huns, Avars, Slavs, Bulgars, and Persians invaded the empire between 395 C.E. and 527 C.E.
This also had to do with their own societal breakup inside the kingdom and it had become hard to contain the whole kingdom for the emperor after a ling continuous reign.