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Grade 4

Transport through time

Learning from leaders

Grade 4 Archive

Communication through time

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Grade 5

A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa

An ancient African society: Egypt

The first farmers in Southern Africa

Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa

Grade 5 Archive

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Grade 6

Organisation of African societies

History of medicine

Exploration and exploitation from 14th century onwards

Democracy in SA

Grade 7

Human evolution

Early trading systems

Moving frontiers

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Grade 8

Resisting British control

Industrialisation

Changing ideas and technologies – World War I

The French Revolution

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Grade 9

Nuclear Age and the Cold War

New vision for Africa

Issues of our time

Human rights issues during and after World War II

End of World War II and the struggle for human rights

Apartheid in South Africa

Grade 10

Colonial expansion in South Africa after 1750

The French Revolution

Southern Africa after 1750

Grade 10 Archive

The world around 1600

European expansion, conquest and the slave trade 15-18th century

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Grade 11

Impact of World War II: how the nature of political quest for independence in Africa changed after 1945

Impact of pseudo-scientific racism and Social Darwinism on the 19th and 20th Centuries

Crisis of capitalism: The Great Depression in the USA and its wider impact in terms of the emergence of fascist economies and states

Competing nationalisms and identities in Africa

Challenges to capitalism; Russian Revolution and the establishment of the Communist state

Apartheid, race, segregation and human rights

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Grade 12

The impact of the collapse of the USSR in 1989

The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s

How uhuru was realised in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s

How SA emerged as a democracy from the crises of the 1990s

Forms of civil society protest emerged from the 1960s to 1970s