AC9HH7K11
Year 7
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH7K11 | Year 7 History: The ancient world
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor key beliefs, values and practices of an ancient society, with a particular emphasis on one of the following areas: everyday life, warfare, or death and funerary customs
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 describing the role of the Delphic Oracle in informing decision-making regarding future warfare
- • Elaboration investigating significant beliefs and values associated with warfare, such as the heroic ideals revealed in the Iliad, and military practices such as army organisation, the hoplite phalanx and naval warfare
Rome
- • Elaboration investigating significant beliefs associated with daily life (for example, the evidence of household religion) and practices (for example, the use of public amenities such as baths, and the forms of entertainment in theatres and amphitheatres)
- • Elaboration analysing the role of the military in the organisation of Roman society and politics, in both the Republic and the early Empire
Egypt
- • Elaboration investigating beliefs associated with death, such as belief in an afterlife, and funerary customs and practices (for example, burial in tombs and techniques of mummification)
- • Elaboration describing how the prominence of male and female gods changed based on locality and time
India
- • Elaboration developing criteria to evaluate the significant beliefs, values and practices of Indian society associated with, for example, the role of the family and religious ceremonies, such as rites of passage for boys and men, and rites of passage for girls and women, and marriage rites
- • Elaboration formulating questions to analyse how Vedism and later, Brahmanism shaped death and funerary customs
China
- • Elaboration identifying how the Mandate of Heaven assisted people in understanding and justifying periods of warfare
- • Elaboration investigating the significant beliefs, values and practices of Chinese society associated with daily life; for example, irrigation and the practice of agriculture, the teachings of Confucius, the evidence of daily life from the Han tombs
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