What is the difference between plodding and scurrying ?

As verbs the difference between scurrying and plodding is that scurrying is while plodding is .

As nouns the difference between scurrying and plodding is that scurrying is the motion of something that scurries while plodding is slow, laborious progress.

As an adjective plodding is progressing slowly and laboriously.

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).