Traveling poets were most influential in the spread o information during the rise of city-states - b.
Poets were able to act as spies of sort because they were pretending to be poets but were actually gatherers of important information which was being sold from city to city as in what was going on in it.
Well, I don't see any map in your question. But I did the test before. And my answer was A) It would depend on the Citizenship statue of the Babies Parents.