The Ottoman advance west redirected European expansion and split East from West.

Evidence

It stimulated expansion westward, favoring the European powers of the Atlantic seaboard (Spain, Portugal, Britain, Holland, and France). It also tended to isolate Western from Eastern Europe—a process reinforced by the growing split between Western (Catholic) and Eastern (Orthodox) churches. From this point onward, the patterns of development within Western and Eastern Europe sharply diverged. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 561

Categorization

• XREF: The structural East-West divergence within Europe prefigures the civilizational divide invoked in Islamophobia discourse.