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.