Short answer is that it is option D.the best chance that he would find anything is an iron tool for digging. It is because he would not leave farm animals to die, it cant be a packet of seeds either because you said it would be ancient. paper would have rotten and plastic was not available back then...a newspaper article would be very unlikely because they wouldn't read where they farmed....
Since they have just gotten over war and money was good for one side but they had lack of money on the other side. From that case it was hard for them to agree over each other whether they could trade or not.
After 450 years as a republic, Rome became an empire in the wake of Julius Caesar's rise and fall in the first century B.C.
