1. Write a report on the political constitution of Germany at the end of the Middle Ages, and the resulting conditions. [Baring-Gould, Story of Germany, chaps. 46, 52; Seebohm, Prot. rev., 26-33; Janssen, Hist., vol. 2, book 4, chap. 1; Freytag, Pictures, XVIIIth cent., vol. 1, chap. 4.]
2. Development of business and business methods at the beginning of the period. [See above, chap. 18; Cunningham’s chapter on Economic change in Cambridge mod. hist., vol. 1; Janssen, Hist., vol. 2, book 3, chap. 3; Freytag, Pictures, XVth cent., vol. 1, chap. 10.]
3. Condition of manufacturing. [Janssen, Hist., vol. 2, book 3, chap. 2.]
4. Condition of agriculture. [Janssen, Hist., vol. 1, book 3, chap. 1.]
5. Decline of the Baltic trade. [Zimmern, Hansa towns, period 3.]
6. Decline of the Hansa in England. [Zimmern, 324-353]
7. Write a brief report on the commercial history of (a) Nuremberg, (b) Augsburg. [Encyc.; Guide books of south Germany.]
8. Class conflicts, political and economic troubles about 1500. [Seebohm, ** Prot. rev., 136-140; Janssen, Hist., vol. 4, book 7; Frank Goodrich, *A social reformer of the fifteenth century, Yale Review, Aug., 1896, 5: 168-181.]
9. Do the Germans control the mouths of all the rivers mentioned in sect. 295 at the present time?
10. Write a report on the effects of the Thirty Years’ War, from the economic and commercial standpoint. [S. R. Gardiner; Thirty Years’ War (Epoch Ser.), N. Y., 1874, 217-221; Anton Gindely, Hist. of the Thirty Years’ War, N. Y., 1884, vol. 2, chap. 11; Freytag, Pictures, XVth cent., vol. 2, chaps. 3, 5, 6.]