BC Social Studies - The Ancient World to the 7th Century - Grade 7 Full Unit

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Grade 7 – British Columbia (BC) Social Studies Curriculum – The Ancient World to the 7th Century. This product was created to cover the elaborations and big ideas in the British Columbia (BC) Social Studies Grade 7 Curriculum – The Ancient World to the 7th Century.

There are 208 activity sheets that cover the learning standards in the social studies curriculum. This unit contains readings, assignments, hands-on activities, fill in the blanks, multiple choice, true/false, and more!

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Some of the concepts that are covered:

• First humans on Earth – migrating from Africa
• Neanderthals
• Activity – Neanderthal cave paintings
• Technological advances in tools – stone age tools
• Activity – making a stone age tool and testing it
• Hunter-gatherer society versus agricultural society
• The agricultural revolution
• Debate: which is better, a nomadic lifestyle or agricultural community
• Characteristics of a civilization
• The first civilization: Sumer
• Indus Valley civilization
• Rise and fall of civilizations
• Mesopotamia
• Ancient Egypt: living off the land (Nile River)
• Egyptian architecture
• Daily life in Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and Ancient China
• Egyptian hieroglyphs
• Governments in ancient civilizations
• Religion in ancient civilizations – gods and worldviews
• Reading maps of the territory of ancient civilizations
• Culture of ancient civilizations
• Writing a story – daily life in Ancient Greece
• Contributions made by Ancient Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, and Chinese
• Government in Athens – Birth of Democracy
• Direct democracy in Athens
• Activity – direct democracy and representative democracy
• Primary sources – reading pictures and interpreting quotes from ancient civilizations
• Roman expansion and war
• Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great
• Bartering system and the evolution of economies in ancient civilizations
• Activity – playing a bartering game
• South American indigenous groups – Inca, Mayan, and Aztec civilizations
• Mayan number system – petroglyphs
• Scientific contributions and inventions by South American civilizations
• Ancient China – advanced civilizations
• Trade – the Silk Road
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

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