Which of the following best describes Ottoman cultural relations with the West?
A) Cultural influences flowed in both directions, with each culture influencing the other.
B) Ottoman scholars came west, but few Europeans went east.
C) Ottoman conquest of Constantinople delayed the onset of the Renaissance.
D) Western merchants and artists had little interest in or contract with the Ottomans.
E) Ottoman rulers refused to let Italian artists and architects work in Istanbul.
Answer: A
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