How did the spread of the Ottoman Empire affect European trade?
A. Europeans had to cut off Asian trade entirely, as the Ottoman Empire began converting European merchants to Islam.
B. Europeans had to establish trade agreements with the Ottoman Empire because it had spread to control most of East Asia.
C. Europeans had to find new trade routes to the East because the Ottoman Empire controlled and taxed existing routes.
D. Europeans had to turn over their economic authority to Venice, the only European city that the Ottoman Empire would trade with.