It is like historical causality. If you subscribe to a certain methodology, you'd agree that the fall of Constantinople indirectly led to Age of Exploration. If I wrote a thesis that said "The Fall of Constantinople led to the American colonies being founded;" if you read that and took it at face value, as you have done with the A/C racism article, you'd say that's ridiculous. But, there is a link and the facts in that chain are indisputable, I am just arguing that because the Ottomans dominated trade in Arabia and Europe, European nations needed a new route around the Ottomans to trade via. That began the search for the Northwest passage and the opening of African, Indian, and Pacific markets. All because the Ottoman Empire was dominant in Eurasia.