1. What evidences of prehistoric commerce are given by Indian arrow-heads, wampum, Indian ornaments, or the relics of the mound-builders? 2. What modern countries have the strip-form of Egypt? [See a map of South America.] 3. Are there any modern countries like Egypt in the uniformity of their conditions and products, diminishing the stimulus to internal trade? [Study, for example, conditions in Alaska, Nevada, or Australia.] 4. Are any of the exports of ancient Egypt still characteristic wares of the country? [See the Statesman’s Year-Book, index under words Egypt, commerce.] 5. What can you infer as to the security of trade from the fact that it was carried on by caravans, bands of merchants? 6. What physical barriers obstructed Egyptian commerce? [See map 33 of Longmans’ School atlas, noting the deserts and the cataracts of the Nile.] 7. Write an essay on the economic conditions of Egypt, from references to that country in the Bible. 8. What countries of the modern world fill the space occupied by the ancient empires of the East? What commerce do they carry on? [See Statesman’s Year-Book.] 9. Can you suggest any reasons why the commerce of these regions seems now much less important than in ancient times? 10. Write an essay on the economic conditions of later Babylon, from descriptions in the Bible. [See Babylon, in the subject-index of the Oxford Bible.] 11. Write an essay on the economic life of the Jews from the descriptions of the Bible. 12. Write a similar essay on the Phœnicians. [See Sidon and Tyre in the subject-index.] 13. Show the similarity of conditions in Phœnicia and in Norway, forcing the inhabitants of both countries to the sea. [Study the physical characteristics of Norway in a geography, and note the history of the Vikings, and the importance of commerce and navigation in modern Norway.] 14. Write a report, from information to be got from the Encyclopædia Britannica, on one of the following subjects:— (_a_) The commerce and manufactures of the Phœnicians. [See the index in the last volume of the ninth edition, under Phœnicians.] (_b_) The manufacture and trade in glass in the ancient world. [See vol. 10, p. 647.] (_c_) The Phœnician purple. [See the references under the word Purple, vol. 20, p. 116, and the index.] (_d_) Early navigation. [See the index.] 15. Wares of Phœnician commerce. [Bible, Ezekiel, chap. 27.] BIBLIOGRAPHY