10. Write an essay comparing the Athenian and the British empires, noting, (_a_) advantages of geographical position, (_b_) products of the home country, exports and imports, (_c_) naval power and naval stations, (_d_) policy to members of the empire, (_e_) commercial policy of the home country. [See Myers or Holm, and the chapters in this book on England; compare E. A. Freeman, Greater Greece and Greater Britain, London, 1886.] 11. Compare the imports of ancient and of modern Greece. [Statesman’s Year-Book.] 12. Make a chart, naming on a horizontal line the leading states of antiquity, from Egypt to Rome, placing dates (3000, 1500, 1000, etc.) in a column at the left, and indicating changes in the history of each state in the appropriate place in its column. 13. Draw a map showing the extent of Alexander’s conquests, and comparing the empire with earlier Oriental empires. [See the maps in Myers, and if no good historical atlas is available consult the maps in the Oxford Bible, teacher’s edition.] 14. Study the influence of the Macedonian conquests on civilization and commerce. [Myers, chaps. 25, 26, 27; Holm, vol. 3, esp. chap. 27.] 15. Write a report on the economic decline of Greece after the Macedonian conquest. [Holm, vol. 4.] 16. Is England exposed to such a change in the currents of trade as furthered the decline of Greece? 17. Why do great cities rarely grow up without the aid of commerce? [The answer to this question is suggested in a later chapter, but the student should be able to work it out himself.] 18. Are there any exceptions? What is the commerce of Washington, D. C.? Is there any one of the cities named in this section which may have owed its size to something beside commerce? 19. Has there been any later period in which great cities have risen suddenly, as in this period after Alexander? 20. Write a commercial history of Carthage from the information to be got in a Roman history, or in the Encyclopædia Britannica. Write a commercial history of Syracuse in the Roman period, from the same sources. 21. Write a report on the commerce and civilization of one of the cities, using Holm, vol. 4, and the encyclopedia. 22. Endeavor to trace the later history of one of these cities, and to discover its population now, using the encyclopedia and a geographical gazetteer. BIBLIOGRAPHY See chapter ii. CHAPTER IV ROMAN PERIOD