Question

system is similar to the purpose of

the sankin kōtai (lit., \alternate attendance\) system was a device of the
tokugawa shogunate, the government of japan from 1603 to 1868, designed
to insure political control by the regime over the daimyo, or territorial lords,
who exercised virtually autonomous authority over the more than 260 feudal
states into which four - fifths of the country was divided. under this system
most of the daimyo were required to travel biennially every two years from
their domains to the capital of the tokugawa at edo (present day tokyo) and
to spend alternate years in personal attendance at the shogunal court. each
daimyo was also required to maintain residences at the capital where his wife
and children were permanently detained....

another important contribution of the operation of the sankin kōtai
system to the modernization of japan was to promote the intellectual and
cultural unification of the country. the sankin kōtai served to bring a large
part of the leadership elements from the whole country together in one place
and to keep a constant stream of leaders and intellectuals moving back and
forth between the capital and all parts of the country. this was important
in giving japan the tremendous intellectual unity with which it faced the
west in the nineteenth century. it also enabled the people at large to have
a stronger sense of national unity than would have been the case had the
system not existed. by serving as the vehicle which spread the culture of edo
and osaka to the countryside, the system influenced the diffusion of a truly
national culture....

source: toshio g. tsukahira, feudal control in tokugawa japan,
east asian research center, harvard university, 1966

○ british suffragettes who demanded parliament grant women the right to vote

○ king louis xiv of france who required nobles to stay at versailles

○ simon bolivar who expected the indigenous people to rise up against the spanish

○ european countries that divided up the african continent

Explanation:

The sankin kōtai system involved the Tokugawa shogunate controlling daimyo by having them attend the court and keep families in Edo. King Louis XIV required French nobles to stay at Versailles to control them (centralize power, limit noble autonomy), similar to sankin kōtai’s political control. British suffragettes focused on women’s suffrage, Bolivar on independence from Spain, and European African division was colonial partitioning—none match the political control via noble attendance/hostage-like family detention as Louis XIV’s Versailles rule does.

Answer:

B. King Louis XIV of France who required nobles to stay at Versailles