2. Taking British India as a characteristic source for the Eastern wares, contrast the exports then and now. [Statesman’s Year-Book, index, India, exports.]
3. What seaports of those named in sect. 95 are still of importance? [Statesman’s Year-Book, index, Italy, shipping.]
4. What evidences have the other ports left of their former greatness? [Encyc.; *Baedeker’s guide-books.]
5. Which one of the three routes, sect. 96, is now the most important?
6. What railways have been constructed or proposed along the line of ancient routes? [See a good atlas, and note the proposed railway from Asia Minor through the Mesopotamian valley to the Persian gulf. What effect may this railway have on the importance of Constantinople?]
7. Read a description of one of the ancient centers of trade in modern times. [Consult books by modern travelers in south-western Asia.]
8. Where now can be found pilgrimages like those of the Christians to Jerusalem? What is their commercial influence? [See Mecca in the encyclopedia; and in Poole’s Index.]
9. How does the average number of crusaders going per year to Palestine compare with the number of Americans going abroad?
10. Prepare, from descriptions in the current history manuals or from a historical atlas (Droysen’s, for example), a map showing the route of each crusade; number each route that the development of the sea-route may be more apparent.
11. Show the development of Venice in the period of the crusades, by comparing her commerce and power at the two dates limiting the period. [References in next chapter.]