This 15 slide Year 7 History lesson sequence introduces students to the social structure and daily life of Mesopotamia. The resource helps students analyse who held power, how different groups lived, and whose experiences are visible or missing in the historical record. The first section (slides 1–8) opens with an inquiry question asking how social structure shaped daily life in early cities. Students examine farmers, artisans, merchants, priests, rulers, soldiers, women, and children through roles, lived experience, and surviving evidence. A dedicated slide addresses whose voices are missing and why. The section closes with a synthesis slide drawing together what the evidence reveals about inequality, identity, and daily experience. The second section (slides 9–15) provides a flexible activity bank including source analysis, discussion, creative thinking, structured writing, ranking tasks, retrieval starters, and exit tickets. The transferable skill is social structure analysis; Mesopotamia is the vehicle.

This resource is provided as non‑editable PDFs and is not designed as editable PowerPoints. Teachers can upload slides to their LMS, print selected pages for classroom use, display them to support discussion, analysis, and writing, or upload them to presentation or design platforms if they wish to adapt the material (formatting may vary depending on the program).