🌎 7th grade Social Studies

Units

1. 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: 6/7.C.PI.2; 6/7.C.IR.7 · governance and the roles of people in medieval Europe after 600 CE

2. 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: 6/7.H.CP.14; 6/7.H.CC.5 · the Islamic world after 600 CE and its exchanges of ideas with other cultures

3. Unit 3

   🐪Trade Routes & Beliefs

   The Silk Road and Indian Ocean trade, how religions and ideas spread, the Islamic Golden Age, medieval Europe and the Magna Carta, up to about 1450.

   Learning standard: 6/7.G.MM.3; 6/7.H.CC.5 · trade routes after 600 CE and how they spread religions and ideas

4. Unit 4

   🎨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: 6/7.H.CC.5; 6/7.C.PI.4 · the Renaissance and Reformation and how religion and ideas shaped government

5. 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: 6/7.G.HI.4; 6/7.C.PI.2 · how Japan's geography shaped its culture and government

6. Unit 6

   🐪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: 6/7.H.CP.15; 6/7.H.CC.5; 6/7.H.CC.6 · civilizations of Sub-Saharan Africa, their exchanges with other cultures after 600 CE, and resistance to colonization

7. Unit 7

   🏔️Aztec, Inca & Conquest

   The Aztec (Mexica) and Inca empires, Cahokia and the Maya after 600 CE, the Spanish conquest and its effects, and Native resistance. Many Indigenous languages of the Americas are spoken today.

   Learning standard: 6/7.H.CP.13; 6/7.H.CE.7; 6/7.H.CC.6; 6/7.C.PI.2 · Indigenous civilizations of the Americas to 1500, governance after 600 CE, and how conquest affected Indigenous peoples

8. Unit 8

   🏯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: 6/7.C.PI.2; 6/7.G.MM.3; 6/7.H.CC.5 · governance in Asian empires after 600 CE, and how transportation, trade and technology spread ideas

9. Unit 9

   🧭Exploration & Empire

   European voyages of exploration, the Columbian Exchange, colonialism in the Americas, Africa and Asia and resistance to it, the expulsion of Jewish communities and the origins of antisemitism.

   Learning standard: 6/7.H.CE.7; 6/7.G.HE.7; 6/7.H.CC.6; 6/7.H.CP.11 · how conquest and colonialism affected peoples and cultures, Indigenous resistance, and the history of anti-Judaism

10. Unit 10

    ⚙️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: 6/7.C.PI.4; 6/7.C.PI.5; 6/7.C.CE.10 · how ideas shaped modern government and rights, constitutions, and limits on the power of government

11. Unit 11

    ⏳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: 6/7.H.CH.1 · constructing and interpreting a timeline of key periods in the development of human societies