Answer:
Option: B. used Chinese political procedures to strengthen Japanese unity to resist Chinese power.
Explanation:
Shotoku Taishi was a scholar and a regent born in Japan who served under Empress Suiko. He is known for the spread of the Buddhism religion in Japan, became a part of the Japanese culture. Shotoku Taishi is also known for transforming the Japanese court under the Empress rule. He introduced the Chinese practice of distinguishing official rank as 12 caps mean 12 officials rank in court and established the Seventeen Article Constitution in Japan.
The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron. Independently discovered in 1851 by William Kelly, the process had also been used outside of Europe for hundreds of years, but not on an industrial scale.
They are both democracies. The United States is based off of ancient Rome. The United States however simplified lots of complicated things from the Roman government.