8. Make tracings of typical maps, of antiquity, of the Middle Ages, and of the period of the great discoveries; and compare them with a modern map of the world. [See maps in Beazley and Cheyney.]
9. Maritime exploration before the fifteenth century. [Beazley, chap. 4.]
10. What were the means and methods of navigation in the fifteenth century? [See Cheyney, p. 53 ff., and Fiske, Discovery.]
11. Voyages in search of a passage to India through the Arctic Ocean. [Oxley, Romance, chap. 6; Verne, vol. 1, part 2, chap. 3; or Payne.]
12. Write a report on the history of tea, coffee, or sugar as a ware of commerce. [Use the references suggested for wares of the Levant or Baltic trade.]
13. Write a similar report on gold, silver, or tobacco.
14. Effect of the fall in value of silver in England. [Cunningham, Growth, vol. 2, sect. 182.]
15. Development of the art of navigation in modern times. [Encyc. Brit., Navigation.]
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Classified bibliographies of the period of the discoveries will be found in Cheyney, and in Cambridge modern hist., vol. 1.