AC9HH7K10
Year 7
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH7K10 | Year 7 History: The ancient world
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor the organisation and roles of key groups in ancient society such as the nobility, bureaucracy, women and slaves, and how they influenced and changed society
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
The ancient world
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 7 History. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
Greece
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration 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
Rome
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration 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
Egypt
- • Elaboration explaining the social structure of ancient Egypt, including slaves, farmers, craftsmen, merchants, scribes, soldiers, priests, Vizers, Nomarchs and Pharaoh
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration 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
India
- • Elaboration explaining how society was organised and shaped through the social hierarchy, including the role of Brahmins (priests, teachers), Kshatriyas (kings, warriors), Vaishyas (merchants, artisans) and Shudras (labourers, peasants)
China
- • Elaboration describing the role of women in shaping ancient society in the areas of marriage, family life, work and education
- • Elaboration outlining the rights and responsibilities of the Shi class
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