The Ottoman-Habsburg Struggle of the Sixteenth Century Can Be Seen

The Ottoman-Habsburg struggle of the sixteenth century can be seen as yet another chapter in the long history of competition that began when the _________ Empire expanded into the Mediterranean and was resisted by the Greeks in the middle of the first millennium B.C.E.

A) Neo-Babylonian
B) Neo-Assyrian
C) Sasanid Persian
D) Achaemenid Persian