The Answer is A, because it was meant for everyone not just scribes and teachers and clerks, the chinese also used them with also influenced the japanese culture.
George Washington's early military career (1754-1758)—during the Seven Years' War—was not uniformly successful. In his first battle, he and his men were ambushed and forced to surrender Fort Necessity on the Pennsylvania frontier. ... Washington led the surviving British and Colonial soldiers on a successful retreat.