CSET SOCIAL SCIENCE SUBTEST 1 ACTUAL EXAM LATEST
2024/2025 QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS/
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Who is the prophet of Islam? - ANSWER Mohammed
Where is the center of Arab religion? - ANSWER Mecca
Where did Mohammad flee to? What was the flight called? What is its
significance? - ANSWER Medina-the Hegira-beginning of the Moslem
calendar
Kaaba - ANSWER Most sacred Muslim mosque in Mecca
5 Pillars of Islam - ANSWER o Oneness of God-Allah; Mohammed=prophet
o Pray 5 times a day
o Charity for the welfare of community
o Fasting during Ramadan
o Pilgrimage to Mecca
4 Moral principles of Islam - ANSWER o Charity, humility, patience
o Forgiveness of enemies
o Avarice, lying, and malice are condemned
o Alcohol, pork, gambling are prohibited
Who took leadership after death of Mohammed? - ANSWER Abu Bakr
(caliph) - friend, father in law
Contributions of Islam - ANSWER • Africa benefitted most
• Perfected methods of irrigation
• Resources extended to Arabian peninsula
• Increased trade routes, easier distribution of crops
• Slavery
• Muslims introduced number 0, advanced surgeries, compass and
astrolabe
• Attempted to spread religion into Europe, got as far as Spain
• The Crusades=Christian wars against Muslim "infidels"
,Manorialism - ANSWER Similar to feudalism, but with manors (large house
with fields)
What ended Feudalism and Manorialism? - ANSWER Black Death
Iconoclasm - ANSWER the rejection or destruction of religious images as
heretical (opposing religion)
Renaissance defined - ANSWER rebirth, rekindling of ancient classical
greek and roman civilizations
Gutenberg - ANSWER Invented printing press- Enabled spread of ideas,
writing and innovations
Scientific Revolution defined - ANSWER A shift in focus from belief to
evidence
Effects of Scientific Revolution - ANSWER -Decrease in church power
-A new sense of self-examination and wider view of the world than ever
before
Enlightenment
-Deism
Cause of enlightenment - ANSWER Scientific Revolution
Effects of Enlightenment - ANSWER Weakened the influence of organized
religion
A new sense of self-examination and wider view of the world than ever
before
Causes of Age of Exploration - ANSWER • rise and spread of
Islam→Crusades→silks, spices and new food brought back to W. Europe
• new ideas, inventions, and methods introduced to W.
Europe→Renaissance→printing press pushed spread of knowledge and
start of exploration
• increased curiosity and seeking of more knowledge
• trade routes between Europe and Asia were difficult
• Increased mapmaking and technology (astrolabe and compass) enabled
exploration
,V.I.P. Age of Exploration - ANSWER Let's talk about Prince Henry, let's talk
about discovery
Let's talk about all the people that made the New World be- lets talk about
it.
Vasco de Gama goes to Asia by sea
B. Diaz sailed - Africa's t.i.p.
Columbus claims to discover a nation
Magellan got that first circumnavigation
Vivaldo Bros and Marco Polo
wrote of their travels, as they go solo
Important impacts-Age of Exploration - ANSWER • Discovery and
colonization of the New World-place for refuge
• Better maps and technology
• Increased knowledge and wealth
• New food in Europe
• Growth of cities , city governments developed
Cause of French Revolution - ANSWER • Extreme taxation, inflation, lack
of food, disregard of unacceptable conditions by rulers, nobility, and Church
• Extravagent spending of upper class
nobility and church exempt from taxation-only the poor taxed
crop failure added fuel to fire
• Lower class not granted equal representation
Encouraged by american revolution and enlightenment
What is the French Revolution? - ANSWER Revolt of middle and lower
classes against political and economic excess of rulers
Details of French Revolution - ANSWER • Lower class forms National
Assembly and publishes Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
• Storming of the Bastille
Effects of French Revolution - ANSWER • Establishment of the first in
series of French Republics
• Napoleon as emperor
Similarities: French & American Revolution - ANSWER • Liberated the
people from unwanted government
, • Installed a different kind of government
• Fought for liberty of common people
• Built on writings and (Enlightenment) ideas that embraced change
• Proved that self-determination is worth fighting for
• Turning points in history
Differences: French & American Revolution - ANSWER • Americans
revolting unwanted taxation and "govt. interference"
-- French revolting starvation and autocrats that did not care.
• French sought complete replacement of social, political, and cultural
structures
• American was long and bloody, involved war -- French mostly an
overthrow of old traditions
• Americans gained representative democracy (their goal) ---- French
gained an emperor (not a goal)
Causes of Industrial Revolution - ANSWER • Strong economies
• High agricultural productivity
• Population growth
• Specialization
• Good trade and transport by way of rivers
• Ecological obstacles (soil depletion and deforestation)
• Discovery of coal deposits as source of energy
• Demand for cotton industry in England
• Invention of steam engine!! (train)
Effects of Industrial Revolution - ANSWER • Increased productivity
• New jobs
• Move to urban locations
• Emergence of new towns
• Rapid urban growth→
• Problems of overcrowding
• Inadequate sanitation (pollution)
• Inadequate law and order
• Wider distribution of wealth
• Increased international trade
• Harsh working conditions
• Rise of working class movement
• Division of labor
• Managerial hierarchies in workplace
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