3. Compare the Venetian and the Athenian sea-empires in respect to (a) extent, (b) duration, (c) policy. [See chapter 2, and for further information on Venetian history see Brown.]
4. Make a map showing Venetian trade relations in the fifteenth century. [Falkner, Statistical Documents, V.]
5. Summarize the account of commercial transactions at that period. [Same.]
6. Write a report on the contributions of the Italians to book-keeping. [Cf. Beckmann, Hist. of inventions, Bohn’s Library, vol. 1, pp. 1-5.]
7. Write a similar report on their contributions to banking. [Encyc., Palgrave’s Dict., or some history of banking.]
8. Write out the English equivalents of the Italian words in sect. 103.
9. What resemblance can you find between Venetian policy toward Germans, and Boer policy toward English in the South African Republic? [See one of the many accounts of conditions preceding the war in South Africa.]
10. From the description in sect. 109 draw on an outline map the route of the Flanders galleys.
11. Write a report on the political conditions in Italy in the last centuries of the Middle Ages. [Current manuals of European history; Burckhardt, Civilisation of the Renaissance, London, 1878.]
12. Write a report on the rivalry of Venice and Genoa. [Brown, Venice.]