Answer: A: The Ottoman millet system, an arrangement designed to utilize the economic contributions of non-Muslim groups within the empire while granting them limited autonomy to organize their communal affairs under their own religious leaders
Explanation:
The second paragraph talks about how the Ottomans welcomed other groups into their areas as potentially revenue-producing subjects and allowed them wide-ranging freedoms. The best support for this would be the Millet System.
By this system, the Ottomans allowed Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities the right to govern themselves provided them accept Ottoman superiority. This drew more people into the empire and allowed the Ottomans to benefit from the economic contributions of these groups.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
The Meaning of this picture and what this political cartoon says about Imperialism is that it refers to the Rudyard Kippling idea of the "White Man's Burden." He wrote the famous poem "The White Man's Burden."
The poem refers to the War of 1899 between the United States and the Philippines. Kipling supported with his poem the imperialistic ideas of the United States and the annexation of the Philippines. Kipling thought that the American white men had the right and the moral obligation to educate other races. However, he considered that non-white peoples such as the Philippines would not be grateful after the help of American whites.
That is why in the cartoon, the author depicts a couple of white men, one of them dressing like Uncle Sam, carrying big baskets full of black people, representing other nations.
At that time, Europeans sadly believed that they were a more evolved race who deserved to take over others. That is why Social Darwinism is considered to be imperialistic and racist.
So as part of imperialistic ideas, white people living in European nations or in the United States, believed that they had the right to colonize and conquer less developed territories and govern these native people.
