7th grade Social Studies
9 units matched to the Maine Learning Results.
Focus areas
- World history from 600 to 1900
- Trade, empires and exchange
- Revolutions and new ideas about government
Units
Unit 1
Medieval Europe
How medieval Europe was organized (kings, nobles, knights and peasants), the role of the Church and guilds, the Magna Carta, the Black Death, and how change came to the feudal system.
Learning standard: History 1; Civics & Government 1 · medieval Europe, feudalism and early English law
Unit 2
The Islamic World
The early Islamic world and its cities, scholars and discoveries (such as algebra and optics), the exchange of knowledge through trade and translation, and the Ottoman Empire.
Learning standard: History 1; History 2 · the Islamic world, its cities and trade, and the exchange of ideas
Unit 3
Empires of Asia
China from the Tang to the Ming, the Mongol Empire, feudal Japan, the Mughal and Ottoman empires, Korea and the Khmer, and how technology and trade spread ideas.
Learning standard: History 1 · the empires of China and Asia, and their trade and inventions
Unit 4
African Kingdoms & Empires
Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Great Zimbabwe, the Swahili coast, Benin and Ethiopia from about 600 to 1900, trade across the Sahara and the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic slave trade and African resistance to colonization.
Learning standard: History 1; Global Connections · the kingdoms of West Africa and trans-Saharan trade
Unit 5
Japan: Land, Beliefs & Values
Japan's islands and mountains, its farming and fishing, and the Shinto, Buddhist and Confucian ideas that helped shape how people lived and what they valued.
Learning standard: Geography 2; History 2 · how Japan's geography shaped its culture and government
Unit 6
Maya, Aztec & Inca
How the Maya, Aztec (Mexica) and Inca arose, their cities, farming, achievements in mathematics and astronomy, and how the Aztec and Inca empires were defeated by Spain. Maya, Nahua and Quechua peoples are living communities today.
Learning standard: History 1; Geography 2 · the Maya, Aztec and Inca and how their lands shaped them
Unit 7
Renaissance & Reformation
The rebirth of art and learning in Italy, how the printing press spread ideas, the Reformation, and how questioning led to new science.
Learning standard: History 1 · the Renaissance and the Reformation and how new ideas spread
Unit 8
Age of Revolutions
The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, revolutions in England, America, France, Haiti and Latin America, the Industrial Revolution, and the end of slavery and serfdom.
Learning standard: History 1; Civics & Government 1 · Enlightenment ideas and the revolutions that shaped democratic government
Unit 9
World Timeline 600–1900
Ordering events in world history from the Tang dynasty to the Berlin Conference, across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Learning standard: History 1 · putting major events in world history from 600 to 1900 in order
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