# Grade 4: Social studies

A course roadmap (social-studies). Language: en. By @si. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. 0 of 5 concepts ready. In the app: https://ai.page/roadmap/sd-ss-grade-4

Part of: [South Dakota: Social studies](https://ai.page/roadmap/sd-ss.md)

Goal: South Dakota academic standards: Social studies, Grade 4

## 1. WORLD HISTORY: 60 B.C.E.-C.E. 1300 · The student demonstrates knowledge of the High and Late Middle Ages.

- [The Medieval Church](https://ai.page/c/the-medieval-church/index.md): The enormous power of the medieval Church: monasteries and the daily life of monks and nuns; building great cathedrals; pilgrimage as a religious journey; the Church's influence over everyday life
- [The Crusades](https://ai.page/c/the-crusades/index.md): A simplified account of the Crusades: why Europeans travelled to the Holy Land, what they found there, the cultural exchange between Christian Europe and the Islamic world
- [Magna Carta and Limiting Royal Power](https://ai.page/c/magna-carta-and-limiting-royal-power/index.md): King John, the barons' revolt, and the sealing of the Magna Carta in 1215; what the Magna Carta said about limiting the king's power; its lasting importance for democracy and rights

## 2. WORLD HISTORY: 60 B.C.E.-C.E. 1300 · The student demonstrates knowledge of the Roman Empire.

- [Roman Republic and Empire](https://ai.page/c/roman-republic-and-empire/index.md): Explain how Rome was first governed as a republic — with elected consuls, a powerful Senate, and a distinction between patricians and plebeians — before becoming an empire ruled by emperors like Augustus (who brought peace, the Pax Romana) and Nero, and compare republican government with Athenian direct democracy
- [Fall of the Western Roman Empire](https://ai.page/c/fall-of-the-western-roman-empire/index.md): Describe how the Western Roman Empire gradually declined due to a combination of factors — military pressure from invading peoples, political instability, economic problems, and an overstretched empire — and finally fell in AD 476, while the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire continued for nearly a thousand more years

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Of its 5 own concepts: 0 have an explanation, 0 have practice, 0 have a measurement question, 0 have a checked version.

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- The Medieval Church has no explanation yet
- The Crusades has no explanation yet
- Magna Carta and Limiting Royal Power has no explanation yet
- Roman Republic and Empire has no explanation yet
- Fall of the Western Roman Empire has no explanation yet

Credit: The structure of South Dakota academic standards: Social studies (https://doe.sd.gov/contentstandards/documents/SS-Standards-2023.pdf); concepts from the Marble Skill Taxonomy (v1), © Generative Spark, Inc. (withmarble.com), text CC BY-SA 4.0, database ODbL 1.0: https://github.com/withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy, mapped to its standards by Marble.