[T]he ‘West’ is not, nor ever has been, ‘one civilization’, other civilisations have also transcended such constraints, ‘Eastern’ civilisations have expanded into the ‘West’ just as much as vice-versa, there is no such construct as a single ‘The West’ and — most of all — there is most certainly no such thing as ‘The Rest’. ⸺ Warwick Ball (2013). “Sultans Of Rome: The Turkish World Expansion” (1st edition). Preface.