NAME_1’s service to the Ottoman state best illustrates the fact that land-based empires in the period 1450–1750 often relied on
(A) appointed bureaucrats to break the power of entrenched landed aristocracies
(B) mass conscription of soldiers to carry out their territorial expansion
(C) methods of recruitment of officials that made use of the ethnic and religious diversity of their subjects
(D) members of the clergy to perform religious services, administer religious law, and oversee public order