CSET Social Science Questions And
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1. Rousseau
ANSWER✔✔ (1712-1778) Believed that society threatened natural rights and
freedoms. Wrote about society's corruption caused by the revival of sciences
and art instead of its improvement. He was sponsored by the wealthy and
participated in salons but often felt uncomfortable and denounced them.
Wrote "The Social Contract."
2. Epic
ANSWER✔✔ A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
3. Glaciation vs. Interglaciation
ANSWER✔✔ We are in the interglaciation stage of the ice age (ha!)
4. Ice Age and Species
ANSWER✔✔ Primacy of mammals vs. cold blood vs. plants, limiting
competition, requiring migration
5. Early Humans and Food
ANSWER✔✔ Needed to leave lush jungle; migratory herds were most
reliable food source
6. Thaw Led to Abundant Vegetation Therefore
ANSWER✔✔ Humans realized no need to migrate, but herds didn't know
this. Need to domesticate in order to stay in place
,7. Early Use of Dogs
ANSWER✔✔ Probably first for sheep, then other animals
8. How Did Domestication of Animals Lead to Agriculture?
ANSWER✔✔ Herd animals allowed humans to stay put long enough for a
harvest
9. Steps Leading to Human Hierarchies
ANSWER✔✔ Step 1: A person does something awesome or terrible to the
people.
Step 2: Out of love for or fear of that person, the people decide to follow him.
Step 3: The leader realizes he cannot possibly handle everything himself.
Step 4: He divides his responsibilities and authority among subordinates.
10. The Most Common Form of Hierarchy is
ANSWER✔✔ An aristocracy. In this system, status is based on one's lineage
11. The System Jethro Proposed Was a Theocracy
ANSWER✔✔ A hierarchy based on religion
12. At Core of Human Hierarchies for Most of History
ANSWER✔✔ Kinship (knights, kings, city-states, emperors)
13. Mother Goddess Worship
ANSWER✔✔ Oldest sculptures. Reach peak in Minoan. Bull as constrained
male force?
,14. Noah Story
ANSWER✔✔ Told for thousands of years. Probably stems from prior
cultures. Influence of actual flood? Lake in North America?
15. Indo-European Diaspora
ANSWER✔✔ 8000 years ago. Proto-Indo-European from Black Sea basin.
Scatter. Common language roots. (ma). Spreads civilization and farming
around the world
16. One of the Black Basin Farmers Ends Up in Mesopotamia. What Periods?
What Result?
ANSWER✔✔ Ubaid. Uruk. Division of skills. Population surplus. Creation of
networks to feed central.
17. Walled Cities Like Jericho
ANSWER✔✔ Defeat barbarians for many years
18. Rivers Essential ________ But _______
ANSWER✔✔ For moving supplies, but ultimately you're going to need roads
if you want to expand into other territories
19. Roads Not Feasible Until
ANSWER✔✔ Discovery of how to make bronze, which can be used to cut
stone (and weapons)
20. Advent of Horses
ANSWER✔✔ Steppe and Assyrians embraced. But not widespread until
advent of the stirrup. Plus, early horses not great for a lot of things.
, 21. Bronze + Horse =
ANSWER✔✔ Empire. Defines success for next 1000 years. Sumerians.
Hittites.
22. Roads of Various Empires Connected By
ANSWER✔✔ Darius
23. How Do Chariots Defeat Jericho?
ANSWER✔✔ Horses attack so fast many goods can't be moved inside. Then
they are starved.
24. Civilizations (With Agriculture) Create Surpluses, Divisions of Labor,
Modern Advancements (e.g., Bronze) in Exchange for a Lack of Sustainability
but
ANSWER✔✔ Restricted to areas with lots of water and good climate.
Competing systems went to less hospitable areas.
25. Horse People Could Compete in Fertile Areas
ANSWER✔✔ Because of archery, pastoral food supplies, maneuverable
horses (no need for roads)
26. The Struggle Between Settled Agriculturalists and Nomadic Pastoralists Is
the Longest Standing Conflict in Human History.
ANSWER✔✔ Settled agriculturalists take all the best land and make fine
products. Horse peoples run in, take the fruits of civilization's labor, and head
back to the steppe.
27. The Earliest Invaders We Have a Name for Are the Scythians, Later
ANSWER✔✔ Parthians (Rome), Huns, who finding themselves locked out of
their normal targets in China by a great wall, turned west and descended on
Answers With Verified Solutions Already
Passed Latest Updated 2025
1. Rousseau
ANSWER✔✔ (1712-1778) Believed that society threatened natural rights and
freedoms. Wrote about society's corruption caused by the revival of sciences
and art instead of its improvement. He was sponsored by the wealthy and
participated in salons but often felt uncomfortable and denounced them.
Wrote "The Social Contract."
2. Epic
ANSWER✔✔ A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
3. Glaciation vs. Interglaciation
ANSWER✔✔ We are in the interglaciation stage of the ice age (ha!)
4. Ice Age and Species
ANSWER✔✔ Primacy of mammals vs. cold blood vs. plants, limiting
competition, requiring migration
5. Early Humans and Food
ANSWER✔✔ Needed to leave lush jungle; migratory herds were most
reliable food source
6. Thaw Led to Abundant Vegetation Therefore
ANSWER✔✔ Humans realized no need to migrate, but herds didn't know
this. Need to domesticate in order to stay in place
,7. Early Use of Dogs
ANSWER✔✔ Probably first for sheep, then other animals
8. How Did Domestication of Animals Lead to Agriculture?
ANSWER✔✔ Herd animals allowed humans to stay put long enough for a
harvest
9. Steps Leading to Human Hierarchies
ANSWER✔✔ Step 1: A person does something awesome or terrible to the
people.
Step 2: Out of love for or fear of that person, the people decide to follow him.
Step 3: The leader realizes he cannot possibly handle everything himself.
Step 4: He divides his responsibilities and authority among subordinates.
10. The Most Common Form of Hierarchy is
ANSWER✔✔ An aristocracy. In this system, status is based on one's lineage
11. The System Jethro Proposed Was a Theocracy
ANSWER✔✔ A hierarchy based on religion
12. At Core of Human Hierarchies for Most of History
ANSWER✔✔ Kinship (knights, kings, city-states, emperors)
13. Mother Goddess Worship
ANSWER✔✔ Oldest sculptures. Reach peak in Minoan. Bull as constrained
male force?
,14. Noah Story
ANSWER✔✔ Told for thousands of years. Probably stems from prior
cultures. Influence of actual flood? Lake in North America?
15. Indo-European Diaspora
ANSWER✔✔ 8000 years ago. Proto-Indo-European from Black Sea basin.
Scatter. Common language roots. (ma). Spreads civilization and farming
around the world
16. One of the Black Basin Farmers Ends Up in Mesopotamia. What Periods?
What Result?
ANSWER✔✔ Ubaid. Uruk. Division of skills. Population surplus. Creation of
networks to feed central.
17. Walled Cities Like Jericho
ANSWER✔✔ Defeat barbarians for many years
18. Rivers Essential ________ But _______
ANSWER✔✔ For moving supplies, but ultimately you're going to need roads
if you want to expand into other territories
19. Roads Not Feasible Until
ANSWER✔✔ Discovery of how to make bronze, which can be used to cut
stone (and weapons)
20. Advent of Horses
ANSWER✔✔ Steppe and Assyrians embraced. But not widespread until
advent of the stirrup. Plus, early horses not great for a lot of things.
, 21. Bronze + Horse =
ANSWER✔✔ Empire. Defines success for next 1000 years. Sumerians.
Hittites.
22. Roads of Various Empires Connected By
ANSWER✔✔ Darius
23. How Do Chariots Defeat Jericho?
ANSWER✔✔ Horses attack so fast many goods can't be moved inside. Then
they are starved.
24. Civilizations (With Agriculture) Create Surpluses, Divisions of Labor,
Modern Advancements (e.g., Bronze) in Exchange for a Lack of Sustainability
but
ANSWER✔✔ Restricted to areas with lots of water and good climate.
Competing systems went to less hospitable areas.
25. Horse People Could Compete in Fertile Areas
ANSWER✔✔ Because of archery, pastoral food supplies, maneuverable
horses (no need for roads)
26. The Struggle Between Settled Agriculturalists and Nomadic Pastoralists Is
the Longest Standing Conflict in Human History.
ANSWER✔✔ Settled agriculturalists take all the best land and make fine
products. Horse peoples run in, take the fruits of civilization's labor, and head
back to the steppe.
27. The Earliest Invaders We Have a Name for Are the Scythians, Later
ANSWER✔✔ Parthians (Rome), Huns, who finding themselves locked out of
their normal targets in China by a great wall, turned west and descended on
