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CSET SOCIAL SCIENCE 2025 ACTUAL
EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
most frequent source of conflict between church and state in Europe throughout the
Middle Ages -Answer- ✔the doctrine of papal supremacy
Latin American revolutionaries of the early nineteenth century drew intellectual
inspiration from -Answer- ✔political ideals of the Enlightenment
important consequence of western European industrialization during the first half of the
nineteenth century -Answer- ✔a division for families between home life and work life
greatest influence on the outcome of World War II in Europe -Answer- ✔the productive
capacity of U.S. factories
steppe -Answer- ✔semiarid conditions and short grass vegetation, aka prairie climate,
inland, summers are hot and winters are cold, sparse rainfall
major physical feature of urban centers in the United States during the last quarter of
the nineteenth century -Answer- ✔the extension of mass transit systems (enabled many
urban dwellers to move to new suburbs)
biggest influence on public sentiment toward passage of the woman suffrage
amendment to the U.S. constitution in 1919 -Answer- ✔the organizational work of
women in the Progressive movement
most responsible for the economic and environmental disaster that struck the southern
Great Plains during the 1930s -Answer- ✔the removal of the natural grass cover
through plowing and cultivation
major difference between the foreign policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S.
Truman -Answer- ✔adopted a more aggressive stance toward the Soviet Union
main purpose of the War Powers Act of 1973 -Answer- ✔restrain the president's ability
to deploy forces outside the U.S.
focus of La Raza Unida since 1969 -Answer- ✔organizing Mexican Americans to
promote community development and preserve cultural traditions
creation of judicial review -Answer- ✔inferred from logic, structure, and theory of the
U.S. Constitution
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the U.S. government's current relationship w/ American Indian tribal govts. is most
similar to its relations with -Answer- ✔U.S. states, since American Indian tribal govts.
have the right to assert jurisdiction over their members
what will most likely happen if fed govt. imposes a minimum wage that is below the
equilibrium -Answer- ✔wages in low-skill jobs will remain unchanged
reasons for objection in 1930s to the United Automobile Workers of America -Answer-
✔leaders of craft-based unions who opposed industrial unionism
3 major periods of prehistory -Answer- ✔lower paleolithic, upper paleolithic, neolithic
lower paleolithic -Answer- ✔humans used crude tools
upper paleolithic -Answer- ✔wider variety of tools, more specialized tools, clothing,
groups, art, caves
neolithic -Answer- ✔more complex social structures (family, religion, government),
domesticate animals and crops, build houses, fires, knit/spin/weave
2 types of anthropological research -Answer- ✔cross-cultural research and comparative
research
4 phases of human development -Answer- ✔lower paleolithic/old tone age, upper
paleolithic/new stone age, bronze age, iron age
upper paleolithic/new stone age -Answer- ✔6000-8000 BCE
bronze age -Answer- ✔3000 BCE
iron age -Answer- ✔1200-1000 BCE
defined characteristics of a civilization -Answer- ✔use of metal to make weapons and
tools, written language, defined territorial state, calendar
earliest civilization -Answer- ✔Mesopotamia (Tigris-Euphrates valley) between 4000-
3000 BCE
modern day area of Fertile Crescent -Answer- ✔Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine,
Jordan
bordered by Arabian Desert (south), Mediterranean (west), Taurus Mountains (north),
Zagros Mountains (east)
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trademarks of Egyptian civilization -Answer- ✔pyramids, hieroglyphics, mummification,
paper (from papyrus), decimal system, solar calendar, arithmetic and geometry
trademarks of Sumerian civilization -Answer- ✔the wheel, irrigation, cuneiform writing
(simpler than hieroglyphs), timekeeping system (still used today), first library, Hanging
Gardens of Babylon, Epic of Gilgamesh
trademarks of Babylonian civilization (part of Sumer) -Answer- ✔Code of Hammurabi
trademarks of Assyrian civilization -Answer- ✔horse-drawn chariots, organized military
trademarks of Hebrew civilization -Answer- ✔monotheistic religion
trademarks of Persian civilization -Answer- ✔allows conquered people to keep laws,
customs, religion; an alphabet; Zoroastrianism, Mithraism, Gnosticism
trademarks of Minoan civilization -Answer- ✔syllabic writing system, large palaces
(sewage systems, running water), linear script A, lots of earthquakes and volcanoes
lived on island of Crete (2700-1450 BCE)
trademarks of Mycenaean civilization -Answer- ✔Greek pantheon religion, linear script
B, replaced Minoan civilization after Greece invaded
trademarks of Phoenician civilization -Answer- ✔stars to navigate ships, purple dye,
glass/metals, phonetic alphabet
trademarks of Indus Valley civilization -Answer- ✔concept of zero, early form of
Hinduism, caste system
trademarks of ancient Chinese civilization -Answer- ✔Yangtze river, silk, millet, pottery
major civilizations of Mesopotamia -Answer- ✔sumerians, amorites, hittites, assyrians,
chaldeans, persians
-all autocratic
trademarks of Kushite civilization -Answer- ✔settled rather than nomadic,
hunting/fishing/herding, cultivated grain, matrilineal descent of leadership
conquered by Nubia in 800 BCE
CSET SOCIAL SCIENCE
CSET SOCIAL SCIENCE 2025 ACTUAL
EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
most frequent source of conflict between church and state in Europe throughout the
Middle Ages -Answer- ✔the doctrine of papal supremacy
Latin American revolutionaries of the early nineteenth century drew intellectual
inspiration from -Answer- ✔political ideals of the Enlightenment
important consequence of western European industrialization during the first half of the
nineteenth century -Answer- ✔a division for families between home life and work life
greatest influence on the outcome of World War II in Europe -Answer- ✔the productive
capacity of U.S. factories
steppe -Answer- ✔semiarid conditions and short grass vegetation, aka prairie climate,
inland, summers are hot and winters are cold, sparse rainfall
major physical feature of urban centers in the United States during the last quarter of
the nineteenth century -Answer- ✔the extension of mass transit systems (enabled many
urban dwellers to move to new suburbs)
biggest influence on public sentiment toward passage of the woman suffrage
amendment to the U.S. constitution in 1919 -Answer- ✔the organizational work of
women in the Progressive movement
most responsible for the economic and environmental disaster that struck the southern
Great Plains during the 1930s -Answer- ✔the removal of the natural grass cover
through plowing and cultivation
major difference between the foreign policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S.
Truman -Answer- ✔adopted a more aggressive stance toward the Soviet Union
main purpose of the War Powers Act of 1973 -Answer- ✔restrain the president's ability
to deploy forces outside the U.S.
focus of La Raza Unida since 1969 -Answer- ✔organizing Mexican Americans to
promote community development and preserve cultural traditions
creation of judicial review -Answer- ✔inferred from logic, structure, and theory of the
U.S. Constitution
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the U.S. government's current relationship w/ American Indian tribal govts. is most
similar to its relations with -Answer- ✔U.S. states, since American Indian tribal govts.
have the right to assert jurisdiction over their members
what will most likely happen if fed govt. imposes a minimum wage that is below the
equilibrium -Answer- ✔wages in low-skill jobs will remain unchanged
reasons for objection in 1930s to the United Automobile Workers of America -Answer-
✔leaders of craft-based unions who opposed industrial unionism
3 major periods of prehistory -Answer- ✔lower paleolithic, upper paleolithic, neolithic
lower paleolithic -Answer- ✔humans used crude tools
upper paleolithic -Answer- ✔wider variety of tools, more specialized tools, clothing,
groups, art, caves
neolithic -Answer- ✔more complex social structures (family, religion, government),
domesticate animals and crops, build houses, fires, knit/spin/weave
2 types of anthropological research -Answer- ✔cross-cultural research and comparative
research
4 phases of human development -Answer- ✔lower paleolithic/old tone age, upper
paleolithic/new stone age, bronze age, iron age
upper paleolithic/new stone age -Answer- ✔6000-8000 BCE
bronze age -Answer- ✔3000 BCE
iron age -Answer- ✔1200-1000 BCE
defined characteristics of a civilization -Answer- ✔use of metal to make weapons and
tools, written language, defined territorial state, calendar
earliest civilization -Answer- ✔Mesopotamia (Tigris-Euphrates valley) between 4000-
3000 BCE
modern day area of Fertile Crescent -Answer- ✔Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine,
Jordan
bordered by Arabian Desert (south), Mediterranean (west), Taurus Mountains (north),
Zagros Mountains (east)
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trademarks of Egyptian civilization -Answer- ✔pyramids, hieroglyphics, mummification,
paper (from papyrus), decimal system, solar calendar, arithmetic and geometry
trademarks of Sumerian civilization -Answer- ✔the wheel, irrigation, cuneiform writing
(simpler than hieroglyphs), timekeeping system (still used today), first library, Hanging
Gardens of Babylon, Epic of Gilgamesh
trademarks of Babylonian civilization (part of Sumer) -Answer- ✔Code of Hammurabi
trademarks of Assyrian civilization -Answer- ✔horse-drawn chariots, organized military
trademarks of Hebrew civilization -Answer- ✔monotheistic religion
trademarks of Persian civilization -Answer- ✔allows conquered people to keep laws,
customs, religion; an alphabet; Zoroastrianism, Mithraism, Gnosticism
trademarks of Minoan civilization -Answer- ✔syllabic writing system, large palaces
(sewage systems, running water), linear script A, lots of earthquakes and volcanoes
lived on island of Crete (2700-1450 BCE)
trademarks of Mycenaean civilization -Answer- ✔Greek pantheon religion, linear script
B, replaced Minoan civilization after Greece invaded
trademarks of Phoenician civilization -Answer- ✔stars to navigate ships, purple dye,
glass/metals, phonetic alphabet
trademarks of Indus Valley civilization -Answer- ✔concept of zero, early form of
Hinduism, caste system
trademarks of ancient Chinese civilization -Answer- ✔Yangtze river, silk, millet, pottery
major civilizations of Mesopotamia -Answer- ✔sumerians, amorites, hittites, assyrians,
chaldeans, persians
-all autocratic
trademarks of Kushite civilization -Answer- ✔settled rather than nomadic,
hunting/fishing/herding, cultivated grain, matrilineal descent of leadership
conquered by Nubia in 800 BCE
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