Which of the following developments in the period 1450-1750 would a historian most likely cite to support Barkey's claim regarding the Ottoman Empire and its predecessors and contemporaries in the first sentence of the second paragraph?A The recruitment of Italian and Dutch merchants and officers into the Portuguese and Spanish naviesB The use of Hindu officials in the Mughal imperial administrationC The establishment of racial categories of social hierarchy under the casta system in Spanish colonies in the AmericasD The official protection granted to Protestant communities in some European states, such as France, following religious conflicts

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