7th grade Social Studies
14 units matched to the Alabama Course of Study.
Focus areas
- Course: World History and Geography: Geographic Principles and Ancient Civilizations
- Geography skills and early humans
- River valley civilizations
- Ancient Greece and Rome, India and China
Units
Unit 1
Maps, Graphs & Data
Reading map scales and legends, choropleth maps, scatter graphs and correlation (and why correlation does not prove cause), and what population pyramids say about a country's age and growth. The data in the questions are made up for practice.
Content standard: 7.1 · using maps, graphs and data to answer geographic questions
Unit 2
Time & Evidence
Counting years in BCE and CE, centuries and calendars, artifacts and archaeology, and judging primary and secondary sources about the ancient world.
Content standard: 7.3; 7.4 · counting years in BCE and CE, and how artifacts give evidence about the past
Unit 3
First Farmers
The long story of early humans, how farming began about 12,000 years ago, domestication, food surpluses, and how settling down led to specialized jobs and the first cities.
Content standard: 7.4; 7.5 · early humans, and the shift from hunting and gathering to farming villages
Unit 4
Where Civilizations Grew
How geography shaped Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley and Shang China along their rivers, plus Greece, Rome and the Maya. Includes a reading passage about the Nile flood.
Content standard: 7.5; 7.6 · how river valleys and new technology led to the first cities
Unit 5
Mesopotamia
Children learn about life between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: city-states, irrigation, writing, laws and technology.
Content standard: 7.6 · Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates: irrigation, cuneiform and city-states
Unit 6
Mesopotamia & Egypt
Why civilizations grew along the Tigris, Euphrates and Nile, cuneiform and hieroglyphs, Hammurabi's Code, pharaohs and pyramids.
Content standard: 7.6; 7.7 · Mesopotamia, and ancient Egypt's economy, government and society
Unit 7
Ancient Egypt
Children learn how the Nile shaped life in Egypt, who held power, how writing and building worked, and what we know from archaeology.
Content standard: 7.7 · ancient Egypt: the Nile, the pharaohs, social classes and trade
Unit 8
Ancient Israel & Kush
The origins and central teachings of Judaism, key figures and the Diaspora, how Judaism endured, and the kingdom of Kush on the Nile: its iron, trade, pyramids and rule over Egypt. Religions are described factually and neutrally.
Content standard: 7.8; 7.9 · ancient Israel, and the African kingdom of Kush
Unit 9
Empires of the Americas & Africa
The Maya, Aztec (Mexica) and Inca, Cahokia, and the trading kingdoms of Africa such as Ghana, Mali and Great Zimbabwe. Maya people and many other nations are living communities today.
Content standard: 7.9; 7.10 · early African societies, and early civilizations of the Americas
Unit 10
Ancient India & China
The Indus Valley and Yellow River, Chinese dynasties and the Mandate of Heaven, Confucius, Hinduism and Buddhism, and inventions such as paper and zero.
Content standard: 7.12; 7.13 · the Indus Valley and early India, and the dynasties of ancient China
Unit 11
Greece & Rome
Athens and Sparta, direct and representative democracy, the Roman Republic and Empire, and the Greek and Roman ideas found in US government.
Content standard: 7.14; 7.15; 7.16 · Classical Greece's legacy, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire
Unit 12
Assyria, Phoenicia & Persia
The Assyrian Empire and its army and library, the Phoenician traders and their alphabet, and the Persian Empire of Cyrus and Darius, with its satrapies, Royal Road and coins.
Content standard: 7.11 · the development of the Assyrians, Phoenicians and Persian Empire
Unit 13
World Maps & Globes
Using maps, globes and other geographic tools: latitude and longitude, hemispheres, continents and oceans, map projections and scale.
Content standard: 7.1 · describing the world in spatial terms with maps, globes and geographic tools
Unit 14
World Regions
Location, place, region, movement and human-environment interaction, and how they shape the way people live in different parts of the world.
Content standard: 7.2 · how location, place, region, movement and the environment shape life in an area
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