Respond to each of the following with one, but no more than three complete sentences.

1. What liberal principles were asserted when the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was declared by the National Assembly in August 1789?

2. What was Francis Bacon's contribution to the scientific revolution?

3. Who was William Cockerill?

4. Throughout the seventeenth century, what was the relationship between Hungary and the Habsburg Empire?

5. What was the Zollverein?

6. What was the Middle Passage during the transatlantic slave trade?

7. What was a caravel?

8. What effect did the boom in the demand for rubber have on Africa's European colonies?

9. With respect to slavery, how did the Mughal Empire differ from the Safavid and Ottoman Empires?

10. What was the role of civil service examinations in Ming China?