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Grade 7 Social Studies practice sheet

BC Curriculum · from Gradelings · Name: ______________________

  1. Question 1

    Put these events from the human story in order, earliest first.

    • 🧍Modern humans (Homo sapiens) appear in Africa
    • 🎨People paint animals on cave walls
    • 🌾People begin farming in Southwest Asia
    • 🔥Early humans learn to control fire
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    Early humans learn to control fire → Modern humans (Homo sapiens) appear in Africa → People paint animals on cave walls → People begin farming in Southwest Asia

    Hint: Early humans learn to control fire: at least 400,000 years ago. Modern humans (Homo sapiens) appear in Africa: about 300,000 years ago. People paint animals on cave walls: more than 30,000 years ago. People begin farming in Southwest Asia: about 12,000 years ago, or 10,000 BCE.

  2. Question 2

    Why did Ancient Greece develop as many separate city-states instead of one kingdom?

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    • The land was completely flat
    • Mountains and seas divided the land into small regions
    • A pharaoh ruled all of Greece
    • The Greeks had only one big river valley
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    Mountains and seas divided the land into small regions

    Hint: Rugged mountains and many islands kept communities apart, so each city-state, like Athens and Sparta, ran itself.

  3. Question 3

    After uniting China in 221 BCE, what did Qin Shi Huang standardize?

    • writing, money, and weights and measures
    • the date of the Olympic Games
    • the language of Rome
    • the shape of the pyramids
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    writing, money, and weights and measures

    Hint: Making these the same everywhere helped him control and tax his huge new empire.

  4. Question 4

    Judaism was one of the first religions to teach…

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    • belief in one God (monotheism)
    • belief in many gods (polytheism)
    • that the Sun was the only god
    • that there are no gods
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    belief in one God (monotheism)

    Hint: 'Mono' means one and 'theos' means god.

  5. Question 5

    Which animal carried goods across the deserts of the Silk Road?

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    • the elephant
    • the reindeer
    • the camel
    • the llama
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    the camel

    Hint: Bactrian camels, with two humps, could travel far with little water through cold and hot deserts.

  6. Question 6

    Put these events on a timeline, earliest first.

    • 🐉221 BCE: Qin Shi Huang unites China
    • 🧱about 3200 BCE: Cuneiform writing begins in Sumer
    • 🌽about 250 CE: The Maya Classic period begins
    • 🔺about 2560 BCE: The Great Pyramid of Giza is built
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    about 3200 BCE: Cuneiform writing begins in Sumer → about 2560 BCE: The Great Pyramid of Giza is built → 221 BCE: Qin Shi Huang unites China → about 250 CE: The Maya Classic period begins

    Hint: BCE years count down toward year 1, so 3000 BCE is earlier than 500 BCE. After that, CE years count up: 100 CE is earlier than 600 CE.

  7. Question 7

    What was the Fertile Crescent?

    • A desert in northern Africa
    • A curve of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, from Mesopotamia to the eastern Mediterranean
    • A mountain range in China
    • An island in the Pacific Ocean
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    A curve of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, from Mesopotamia to the eastern Mediterranean

    Hint: It's shaped like a crescent moon and includes the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

  8. Question 8

    Greece has little flat farmland but a long coastline. How did this shape Greek life?

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    • Greeks lived only in deserts
    • Greeks never used boats
    • Many Greeks became sailors, traders and fishers
    • Greeks grew rice in large paddies
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    Many Greeks became sailors, traders and fishers

    Hint: The sea connected Greek cities to each other and to trading partners around the Mediterranean.

  9. Question 9

    Why did the Roman Republic have two consuls who served for only one year?

    • Because the Senate had no members
    • So they could share one crown
    • So that no single person could hold too much power
    • Because one consul ruled Greece
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    So that no single person could hold too much power

    Hint: After overthrowing their last king, Romans wanted to avoid one person ruling alone.

  10. Question 10

    The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path are central teachings of which belief system?

    • Islam
    • Buddhism
    • Confucianism
    • Judaism
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    Buddhism

    Hint: The Buddha taught these as a way to understand suffering and live a balanced life.

Answer key

  1. 1. Early humans learn to control fire → Modern humans (Homo sapiens) appear in Africa → People paint animals on cave walls → People begin farming in Southwest Asia (First Farmers)
  2. 2. Mountains and seas divided the land into small regions (Where Civilizations Grew)
  3. 3. writing, money, and weights and measures (Laws & Government)
  4. 4. belief in one God (monotheism) (World Beliefs)
  5. 5. the camel (Trade Networks)
  6. 6. about 3200 BCE: Cuneiform writing begins in Sumer → about 2560 BCE: The Great Pyramid of Giza is built → 221 BCE: Qin Shi Huang unites China → about 250 CE: The Maya Classic period begins (Inventions & Timelines)
  7. 7. A curve of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, from Mesopotamia to the eastern Mediterranean (First Farmers)
  8. 8. Many Greeks became sailors, traders and fishers (Where Civilizations Grew)
  9. 9. So that no single person could hold too much power (Laws & Government)
  10. 10. Buddhism (World Beliefs)

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