UpOnly Learning · free for anyone

Free 7th grade social studies worksheets with answers

Written by Dr. Evan J. Hasson, DC — a dad of three who built this curriculum for his own children.

50 questions with the answers, free to print and free to photocopy for your own students. Communities, maps and geography, civics, economics and history, drawn from every topic in the grade.

Enjoy them. If you want more, or something we do not have yet, ask on our Share your ideas page and a real person will read it.

Hide the answers to print a clean copy for your student, then show them again to print your answer key.

History & Social Studies — Grade 7

50 questions · answers marked50 questions · answers hidden

UpOnly Learning
NameDateScore     / 50
  1. 1. In what year was Magna Carta sealed?
    1. A. 1265
    2. B. 1215 ← Answer
    3. C. 1315
    4. D. 1066
  2. 2. What was feudalism?
    1. A. A system of trade run by merchant towns
    2. B. A system in which land was exchanged for loyalty and military service ← Answer
    3. C. A way of choosing the Church's leaders
    4. D. A tax paid by every peasant to the king
  3. 3. What was the Black Death?
    1. A. A pandemic of plague that swept Europe, Asia and North Africa in the 1340s and 1350s ← Answer
    2. B. A famine caused by poor harvests only
    3. C. A religious movement in the 1500s
    4. D. A long war between France and England
  4. 4. What is the Sahara?
    1. A. The largest hot desert in the world, in northern Africa ← Answer
    2. B. A river in West Africa
    3. C. A mountain range in Morocco
    4. D. A dry grassland of scattered trees and cattle south of the desert
  5. 5. Who developed the movable-type press in Europe?
    1. A. Johannes Gutenberg ← Answer
    2. B. Leonardo da Vinci
    3. C. Bi Sheng
    4. D. Martin Luther, the monk who wrote the 95 Theses
  6. 6. Who united the Mongol tribes and became Genghis Khan?
    1. A. Batu Khan
    2. B. Temujin ← Answer
    3. C. Kublai Khan
    4. D. Hulagu Khan
  7. 7. In what year do historians often date the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
    1. A. 410 CE
    2. B. 1453 CE
    3. C. 476 CE ← Answer
    4. D. 27 BCE
  8. 8. Which city was home to the House of Wisdom?
    1. A. Mecca
    2. B. Baghdad ← Answer
    3. C. Damascus
    4. D. Cairo
  9. 9. Which English king agreed to Magna Carta?
    1. A. King Richard I
    2. B. King Henry VIII
    3. C. King John ← Answer
  10. 10. What was a vassal?
    1. A. A person who received land from a lord in return for loyalty and service ← Answer
    2. B. A craftsperson in a town guild who owed fees
    3. C. A peasant bound to the lord's land
    4. D. A priest who ran a monastery
  11. 11. What is a pandemic?
    1. A. A disease outbreak that spreads across many countries ← Answer
    2. B. A disease that stays inside a single village or small region
    3. C. A rise in prices
    4. D. A shortage of workers
  12. 12. What is the Sahel?
    1. A. The largest hot desert in northern Africa, where salt was mined
    2. B. The dry grassland region just south of the Sahara ← Answer
    3. C. A rainforest on the coast
    4. D. A salt mine
  13. 13. In which German city did Gutenberg work?
    1. A. Berlin
    2. B. Hamburg
    3. C. Mainz ← Answer
    4. D. Munich
  14. 14. In what year was Temujin named Genghis Khan?
    1. A. 1258
    2. B. 1066
    3. C. 1206 ← Answer
    4. D. 1368
  15. 15. Who removed the last western Roman emperor in 476 CE?
    1. A. Attila
    2. B. Odoacer ← Answer
    3. C. Constantine
    4. D. Julius Caesar
  16. 16. Which dynasty founded Baghdad in 762 CE?
    1. A. The Tang dynasty
    2. B. The Mali dynasty
    3. C. The Abbasid dynasty ← Answer
    4. D. The Roman dynasty that ruled from Constantinople
  17. 17. Where was Magna Carta sealed?
    1. A. Hastings
    2. B. York
    3. C. Runnymede ← Answer
    4. D. Canterbury
  18. 18. What was a fief?
    1. A. A yearly tax paid to the Church by peasants
    2. B. A craftsperson's workshop
    3. C. A town market
    4. D. Land given by a lord to a vassal ← Answer
  19. 19. What does labor mean?
    1. A. Work done by people, or the workers themselves ← Answer
    2. B. Money paid to workers for work on a lord's land each year
    3. C. How much of something is available
    4. D. A shortage of goods
  20. 20. What is a caravan?
    1. A. A royal palace
    2. B. A walled market
    3. C. A single ship carrying trade goods along the coast
    4. D. A group of traders traveling together, often with camels ← Answer
  21. 21. What famous book did Gutenberg print about 1455?
    1. A. The Gutenberg Bible ← Answer
    2. B. The Magna Carta
    3. C. The Canterbury Tales
    4. D. The Canon of Medicine
  22. 22. What is the steppe?
    1. A. A mountain pass between two kingdoms
    2. B. A dry desert covered in sand dunes
    3. C. A wide, mostly treeless grassland ← Answer
  23. 23. Who was the last western Roman emperor?
    1. A. Nero
    2. B. Justinian
    3. C. Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome
    4. D. Romulus Augustulus ← Answer
  24. 24. What was a caliphate?
    1. A. A school of medicine
    2. B. A Roman province
    3. C. A guild of merchants that traded between Asia and Africa
    4. D. A Muslim state ruled by a caliph ← Answer
  25. 25. What is a charter?
    1. A. A written list of taxes that each baron owed to the king each year
    2. B. A written document granting rights or privileges ← Answer
    3. C. England's law-making assembly
  26. 26. What was a manor?
    1. A. A lord's estate with fields, a village and a manor house ← Answer
    2. B. A king's court
    3. C. A guild hall in a town where craftspeople met to set prices
    4. D. A monastery school
  27. 27. What does supply mean?
    1. A. A rise in prices
    2. B. How much of something is available ← Answer
    3. C. Payment for work done each week
    4. D. A disease outbreak
  28. 28. What was trans-Saharan trade?
    1. A. Trade between Europe and Asia
    2. B. Trade within one village
    3. C. Trade across the Sahara between North and West Africa ← Answer
    4. D. Trade by sea around the coast of Africa in large wooden ships
  29. 29. What is movable type?
    1. A. A pen with a metal tip
    2. B. A scroll of paper
    3. C. Individual letters that can be arranged, inked, printed and reused ← Answer
    4. D. A single carved wooden block used to print a whole page at once in China
  30. 30. What does the title khan mean?
    1. A. A palace built from stone and brick
    2. B. A trade route across the desert
    3. C. A Mongol ruler or war leader ← Answer
    4. D. A kind of long curved sword
  31. 31. What city became the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire?
    1. A. Rome, which remained the center of the Eastern Empire
    2. B. Alexandria
    3. C. Constantinople ← Answer
    4. D. Athens
  32. 32. What was the House of Wisdom?
    1. A. A center of learning and translation in Baghdad ← Answer
    2. B. A battlefield
    3. C. A trading port
    4. D. A royal palace where the caliph held court each year
  33. 33. What was a baron?
    1. A. A peasant bound to a lord's land
    2. B. A powerful noble who held land from the king ← Answer
    3. C. A soldier paid to fight for any side
    4. D. A merchant who traded wool between English towns
  34. 34. What was a serf?
    1. A. A knight who served the king
    2. B. A priest in a village
    3. C. A peasant bound to work the lord's land and not free to leave ← Answer
    4. D. A merchant in a town who paid fees to a guild
  35. 35. What is a wage?
    1. A. Payment for work ← Answer
    2. B. A written law
    3. C. A shortage of land
    4. D. A tax paid to a lord
  36. 36. What did the title Mansa mean in the Mali Empire?
    1. A. Priest
    2. B. King or emperor ← Answer
    3. C. Salt miner
    4. D. Merchant who sold salt in the markets of the Sahel
  37. 37. What was the Renaissance?
    1. A. A period of renewed interest in classical learning, art and science, beginning in Italy ← Answer
    2. B. A war between German states
    3. C. A system of land and loyalty
    4. D. A religious movement in the 1500s that led to the rise of Protestant churches in northern Europe
  38. 38. What animal was most important to Mongol warriors?
    1. A. The elephant
    2. B. The horse ← Answer
    3. C. The ox
    4. D. The camel
  39. 39. What was the Eastern Roman Empire later called?
    1. A. The Persian Empire
    2. B. The Frankish Kingdom
    3. C. The Byzantine Empire ← Answer
    4. D. The Holy Roman Empire
  40. 40. What was the translation movement?
    1. A. A system of money
    2. B. A way to move goods
    3. C. A movement to ban books that disagreed with the caliph's teachings
    4. D. The effort to translate Greek, Persian and Indian works into Arabic ← Answer
  41. 41. What does rule of law mean?
    1. A. Laws never change over time
    2. B. The king's word stands above every law
    3. C. Only nobles must obey the law
    4. D. Everyone, including leaders, must follow the law ← Answer
  42. 42. What was a guild?
    1. A. An association of merchants or craftspeople in a medieval town ← Answer
    2. B. A village of serfs
    3. C. A church council of bishops that met to settle questions of faith
    4. D. A group of knights serving one lord
  43. 43. What is scarcity?
    1. A. When prices stay the same
    2. B. When laws change
    3. C. When there is more than enough of something to meet demand
    4. D. When there is not enough of something to meet demand ← Answer
  44. 44. Which desert did caravans cross in the gold-salt trade?
    1. A. The Gobi
    2. B. The Arabian Desert
    3. C. The Sahara ← Answer
    4. D. The Kalahari
  45. 45. What was the Reformation?
    1. A. A religious movement in the 1500s that challenged the Catholic Church ← Answer
    2. B. A rebellion of peasants in 1381
    3. C. A revival of interest in Greek and Roman art that began in Italy in the 1300s
    4. D. A plague outbreak
  46. 46. What weapon were Mongol riders especially skilled with?
    1. A. The heavy iron mace
    2. B. The bow and arrow ← Answer
    3. C. The long wooden spear
  47. 47. In what year did the Eastern Roman Empire end?
    1. A. 1215
    2. B. 476
    3. C. 1453 ← Answer
    4. D. 1066
  48. 48. During the translation movement centered on Baghdad's House of Wisdom, Greek, Persian and Indian works were translated into which language?
    1. A. Hebrew
    2. B. Greek
    3. C. Arabic ← Answer
    4. D. Latin
  49. 49. What is due process?
    1. A. A fee paid to a royal court
    2. B. A written promise of loyalty to a lord
    3. C. Fair legal procedures before rights or property can be taken ← Answer
  50. 50. Who stood at the top of the feudal system?
    1. A. The guild masters
    2. B. The serfs
    3. C. The king ← Answer
    4. D. The knights
UpOnly Learning · uponlylearning.com · free to print and photocopy for your own studentsHistory & Social Studies — Grade 7
UpOnly Learning · uponlylearning.com · History & Social Studies Grade 7

What 7th grade social studies covers

7th grade social studies at UpOnly Learning is 8 topics, taught in this order: why did the Western Roman Empire fall?, the Islamic Golden Age, gold, salt and the empires of West Africa, feudalism, manors and the medieval Church, magna Carta and limits on a king, the Black Death and the price of labor, the printing press and the spread of ideas, and the Mongol Empire and the Eurasian exchange. The 50 questions above are drawn from those topics, with the answer marked beside each one, so you can see what has stuck and what needs another lesson. The workbook teaches each topic with a 40-minute lesson; the free PDF sample has one full topic.

What's inside

  • Why did the Western Roman Empire fall?: Weigh the relative influence of political, economic and military causes of the fall of the Western Roman Empire
  • The Islamic Golden Age: Explain why scholars of the House of Wisdom and the wider Islamic world are historically significant
  • Gold, salt and the empires of West Africa: Explain how the geography of the Sahara and Sahel shaped the gold-salt trade of Ghana, Mali and Songhai
  • Feudalism, manors and the medieval Church: Describe how feudal ties, manors, guilds and the Church shaped daily life in medieval Europe
  • Magna Carta and limits on a king: Examine why Magna Carta was written in 1215 and how its ideas about law and rights spread over time
  • The Black Death and the price of labor: Explain how the plague's huge death toll changed the supply of workers, wages and the medieval economy
  • The printing press and the spread of ideas: Explain how Gutenberg's movable-type press changed how fast ideas of the Renaissance and Reformation spread
  • The Mongol Empire and the Eurasian exchange: Explain the causes of the Mongol conquests and their destructive and connecting effects across Eurasia

Keep going

Your next step

History & Social Studies · Grade 7

$19.99. One-time purchase, no subscription.

225 pages · 960 questions with answers · 8 topics

See it in the store
From the workbook

A real page of History & Social Studies · Grade 7

Magna Carta: No One Above the Law

Examine why Magna Carta was written in 1215, what it originally did, and how its ideas about law and rights influenced later governments. · 40 min

Warm-up — say this

“Should a leader follow the rules too? English nobles answered that question in 1215.”

Worked example

Why were the barons angry with King John?

Answer: He demanded heavy taxes and fees, seized land and punished people without fair trials, especially to fund failed wars in France.

A mistake students make

Magna Carta gave rights to all English people right away.

How the book fixes it

Explain that it mainly protected barons, the Church and free men; most peasants were serfs and received little direct benefit at first.

Note to the parent

Look up an image of a surviving 1215 copy online together; seeing the real parchment makes the event feel concrete.

That is one topic of many. The free questions above check a skill; this is the part that teaches it.

Practice checks. Our history and social studies workbooks teach.

These questions check a skill. The workbook teaches it.

  • TeachesA 40-minute lesson per topic that tells you what to say.
  • ExplainsWorked examples and the common mistakes, with fixes.
  • ReviewsAnswers with short explanations, and fresh questions.
  • PlansEvery topic in teaching order, matched to the standards.
$19.99 each Buy a history and social studies teaching workbook Free sample More free resources

Other grades

KindergartenFree kindergarten history and social studies questionsGrade 1Free 1st grade history and social studies questionsGrade 2Free 2nd grade history and social studies questionsGrade 3Free 3rd grade history and social studies questionsGrade 4Free 4th grade history and social studies questionsGrade 5Free 5th grade history and social studies questionsGrade 6Free 6th grade history and social studies questionsGrade 8Free 8th grade history and social studies questions

Grade 7, other subjects

MathFree 7th grade math questionsReadingFree 7th grade reading questionsScienceFree 7th grade science questionsWritingFree 7th grade writing and grammar questionsLife SkillsFree 7th grade life skills questionsBusinessFree 7th grade business and money questionsPsychologyFree 7th grade psychology questions

Questions parents ask

Are these history and social studies worksheets really free?

Yes. All 50 questions and their answers are on this page, free to print and free to photocopy for your own students. Printing needs only a free account. No card.

Can a teacher or a tutor use these with a class?

Yes. Print and photocopy them for the students you teach. The only thing we ask is that you do not republish them as your own or sell them.

Where are the answers?

Marked beside each question on this page, so it prints as its own answer key. For a clean copy, click Hide answers before you print; click Show answers again to print your answer key.

What grade are these for?

Grade 7. Every other grade from kindergarten to grade 8 has its own page, linked at the foot of this one. If your student finds these hard, try the grade below — that is normal and it is not a problem.

What do the paid workbooks add?

These questions check a skill. The workbook teaches it: a forty-minute lesson that tells you what to say, two or three worked examples, the mistakes students actually make on that skill and how to correct each one, and an explanation beside every answer rather than a bare key.