7th+Grade+History


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7th Grade Social Studies Preview
 * Islam
 * Muhammed
 * Qur’an and the Sunnah as the primary sources of Islamic beliefs, practice, and law
 * China in the Middle Ages
 * Mongols
 * Historic influence of discoveries such as tea, manufacture of paper, wood block printing, compass and gunpowder
 * Ghana and Mali in the Middle Ages
 * Trade in gold, salt, food and slaves
 * Growth of Arabic language and Islamic scholarship
 * Japan in the Middle Ages
 * Lord vassal system of the shogun, daimyo and samurai
 * Murasaki Shikibu’s Tale of Genji
 * Europe in the Middle Ages
 * Feudalism
 * Magna Carta, habeus corpus and independent judiciary in England
 * Crusade
 * Bubonic plague or the "black death"
 * Founding of universities, political and spiritual roles of the clergy, creation of monastic and mendicant religious orders, preservation of the Latin language and religious texts
 * Meso-American and Andean Civilizations
 * Meso-American and Andean civilizations
 * How each empire arose and how the Aztec and Incan empires were defeated by the Spanish
 * Development of the calendar
 * Renaissance
 * Balance between intellect and religious faith
 * New ways of providing information
 * Dante Alighieri, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo di Buonarroti Simoni, Johann Gutenberg, and William Shakespeare
 * Historical Developments of the Reformation
 * Theological, political, and economic ideas developed from the following major figures - Desiderius Erasmus, Martin Luther, John Calvin, William Tyndale
 * Protestants’ new practices of church self-government and the influence of those practices on the development of democratic practices and ideas of federalism.
 * Golden Age of cooperation between Jews and Muslims in medieval Spain promoted creativity in art, literature, and science, but that cooperation was terminated by the religious persecution of individuals and groups (e.g., the Spanish Inquisition and the expulsion of Jews and Muslims from Spain in 1492)
 * Scientific Revolution
 * New scientific theories (e.g., those of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton) and the significance of new inventions (e.g., the telescope,microscope, thermometer, and barometer)
 * Scientific method advanced by Bacon and Descartes, the influence of new scientific rationalism on the growth of democratic ideas, and the coexistence of science with traditional religious beliefs
 * The Age of Exploration, the Enlightenment, and the Age of Reason
 * the influence of mercantilism and cottage industry; the elements and importance of a market economy in seventeenth-century Europe
 * Enlightenment thinkers (e.g., John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, American founders)