CBSE Class 7 Social Science, Chapter 5: The Rise of Empires
NCERT Exploring Society: India and Beyond Part 1, pages 83–116. 13 topics, about 9 days of study at 20 to 30 minutes a day.
Topics in this chapter, with textbook pages
- Introductionpages 83–87
- What is an Empire?pages 87–88
- Features of an empirepages 88–91
- Trade , trade routes and guildspages 91–93
- The Rise of Magadhapages 93–95
- The Arrival of the Greekspages 96–98
- The Mighty Mauryaspages 98–101
- Kauṭilya’s concept of a kingdompages 101–103
- The King Who Chose Peacepages 104–108
- Life in the Mauryan periodpages 108–109
- Some Contributions of the Mauryas Life and peoplepage 110
- Art and architecturepages 111–112
- The Fragile Nature of Empirespages 112–115
Teach this chapter at home
- A day-by-day plan with the exact textbook pages for each day.
- A step-by-step script for each day, so you know what to say and ask, written from the NCERT chapter.
- A quiz at the end and a written task you can check with a photo of the notebook.
Textbook pages follow the 2026-27 NCERT print and can differ by a page or two in older prints. Adhian Gurus is not affiliated with NCERT or CBSE.