Why did the farmers of the constitution agree to meet in private

They did not want the public to review their ideas before they were finished

To set up a agreement to stop being pushed around

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the conditions that made the byzantine empire vulnerable to attacks by the muslin turks were the sack of constantinople by western crusaders, the conquests of the sultanate of rum, presence of rival kingdoms and finally the set up of fiefdoms at the empire which were owned by the ghazis (turkish warriors).