Taken together, both images are most closely connected with which of the following historical developments?

(A) Western imperial domination of non-Western powers (B) The impact of technology transfer on military affairs (C) Agrarian revolutions against abusive centralizing powers (D) The worldwide industrialization of weapons productionExplanation: (B) This question tests interpretation and the ability to contextualize broad historical trends. These images depict the diffusion of gunpowder technology from Western armies to non-Western ones, as in (B) Nothing about the images proves that the weapons are being industrially produced by the non-Western peoples in question, making D wrong, and while the viewer can infer an imperial relationship from the second image, there is no evidence of one in the first, so A is unlikely. No evidence for C exists in either image.