The correct answer is - cornu.
The cornicen was using an instrument cornu, after which he got the name. The cornicen was a junior officer at the Roman Imperial Army, and his role was to signal the salutes for the officers of the army, and more importantly to use the signals from the cornu as orders for the legions who of course new what each sound meant. The corniciens were always at the head of the centuries, along side the signifier and the tesserary.
The agriculture industry defined eighteenth and nineteenth century Southern culture, which was characterized by white-owned and slave-operated, cotton, tobacco, and sugar plantations, and continued as a strong Southern identifier even after the shift from this agrarian “Old South” to the industrialized “New South.” That is what south agriculture is.
The answer is D. The Gupta empire