Grade 7 Social Studies practice sheet

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

Question 2

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

• 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

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

Question 4

Judaism was one of the first religions to teach…

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

Question 5

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

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

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

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

Question 8

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

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

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

Question 10

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

• Islam
• Buddhism
• Confucianism
• Judaism