Which of the following is an accurate description of the differences between older and newer scholarly interpretations that seek to characterize the latter centuries of the Ottoman Empire?

A. Older interpretations asserted that Ottoman decline was the result of internal divisions within the Ottoman ruling class.

B. New interpretations suggest that while Ottoman expansion indeed ceased, the Ottomans focused on modernizing and optimizing their domestic systems.

C. Newer interpretations asserted that the rapid pace of Ottoman cultural and political decline had been vastly understated by previous historians.

D. New interpretations highlight foreign policy exploits of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

E. Both C and D.