AC9HH7K10 – Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences: The ancient world

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

• • examining evidence of the social structure of Athenian or Spartan society; for example, the roles of citizens, women and slaves in Athenian society and the roles of Spartiates, Perioikoi and Helots in Spartan society
• • describing the rights of citizens in ancient Athens (for example, the right for men to vote), their responsibilities (for example, military service, attending assembly meetings) and the concept of freedom
• • describing the significance of slavery in the period of the Roman Empire; for example, the acquisition of slaves through warfare, the use of slaves as gladiators, agricultural labourers and domestic servants, and the rise of freedmen
• • investigating material culture and visual primary sources depicting the role of social structure (for example, the roles of patricians, plebeians, women of different classes and slaves) to understand the lived experience of republicanism in Rome
• • explaining the social structure of ancient Egypt, including slaves, farmers, craftsmen, merchants, scribes, soldiers, priests, Vizers, Nomarchs and Pharaoh
• • describing the rights and responsibilities of women of different classes in the areas of marriage, family life, work and education, and the depiction of women fulfilling these roles in artwork and funerary texts
• • explaining how scribes viewed their role in the maintenance of society, using evidence such as funerary texts and literary works, such as the Instruction of Amenemope

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: