Grade 7

The curriculum statement is from the Department of Education for the year 2008.

Knowledge focus

The knowledge focus for achieving the Learning Outcomes in Grade 7 is reflected in:

History

  1. Human evolution:

    • early hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa;

    • becoming human in southern Africa;

    • rock art as an expression of hunter-gatherer society and world-view.

  2. A broad overview of early trading systems:

    • Indian Ocean and East Africa: Arab trade, Swahili coastal communities, and links with Great Zimbabwe - ninth to sixteenth centuries;

    • West Africa and trans-Saharan trade: salt, gold, slaves and ancient trade routes, centres of learning, historical reporting - ninth to sixteenth centuries;
      European trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries;

    • Dutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries;

    • Africa and the Atlantic slave trade - sixteenth to nineteenth centuries.

  3. Moving frontiers:

    • contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century;

    • contact, conflict and dispossession: frontiers in America in the nineteenth century.

    • Systems of democracy: the American Revolution.

 

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