How did the cultivation of opium in India become a factor in the opening of China to foreign trade?
What is meant by "treaty ports"? Make a list of those shown on the map of eastern China.
Name two Chinese statesmen who have been factors in the relations between China and the United States.
Compare the position of Japan with that of the British Isles with reference to commerce.
What advantages has Japan with reference to latitude?—what disadvantages with reference to cultivable lands?
From the Statesman's Year-Book find the leading exports and imports and the volume of trade of these states.
From the Abstract of Statistics find the leading articles of trade between these states and the United States.
FOR COLLATERAL READING AND REFERENCE
From a cyclopædia read the following topics: The opium war, Commodore Perry's expedition.