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....
Answer:
The emergence of a new middle class. The rise of merchants and the notion that wealth equals power. Mercantilism to capitalism.
The correct answer is B. Imperialism