The ottoman empire's defeat at the battle of lepanto in 1571 signaled that the focus of european states was shifting from

The defeat of the Ottoman at the battle of Lepanto in the year 1571 was a sign that the focus of the European states was shifting from the Mediterranean to Atlantic. The battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement in southwestern Greece’s waters between the Christian forces of the Ottoman Turks and Holy League during the Ottoman campaign to acquire the island of Cyprus in Venetian.

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a) the colonists began to see themselves as different from people in britain.