# Grade 6: Social studies

A course roadmap (social-studies). Language: en. By @si. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. 0 of 7 concepts ready. In the app: https://ai.page/roadmap/sd-ss-grade-6

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

Goal: South Dakota academic standards: Social studies, Grade 6

## 1. Influential Ideas in History and Civics: To 1815 · The student demonstrates knowledge and understanding of influential ideas from the Middle Ages.

- [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. Influential Ideas in History and Civics: To 1815 · The student demonstrates knowledge and understanding of influential ideas from the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.

- [Greek and Roman Legacy Today](https://ai.page/c/greek-and-roman-legacy-today/index.md): Evaluate the lasting contributions of Greek and Roman civilisations to modern life — democracy, law, language (Latin roots), architecture (columns, arches, domes), sport (Olympics), philosophy, literature, and theatre — and understand that Greek ideas reached us through Rome, and then through later European civilisations, in a chain of cultural transmission
- [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

## 3. Influential Ideas in History and Civics: To 1815 · The student demonstrates knowledge and understanding of influential ideas from ancient Asia, the Middle East, northern Africa, and the eastern Medite

- [Alexander the Great's Empire](https://ai.page/c/alexander-the-great-s-empire/index.md): Describe how Alexander the Great of Macedon conquered a vast empire stretching from Greece to Egypt to India, spreading Greek language, culture, and ideas across the ancient world — creating a period known as the Hellenistic Age where Greek and Eastern cultures blended
- [Greek Philosophers and Medicine](https://ai.page/c/greek-philosophers-and-medicine/index.md): Know that Greek thinkers called philosophers developed ways of understanding the world that still influence us today — Socrates asked challenging questions to test ideas (the Socratic method), Plato imagined the ideal society, Aristotle observed and classified the natural world — and that Hippocrates is called the father of medicine for insisting on natural causes of illness rather than blaming the gods
- [Athenian Democracy](https://ai.page/c/athenian-democracy/index.md): Understand that Athens invented democracy — a system where free male citizens gathered in an Assembly to debate and vote on important decisions for the city — but that women, enslaved people, and foreigners were not allowed to vote
- [Historical Sources on Ancient Egypt](https://ai.page/c/historical-sources-on-ancient-egypt/index.md): Explain how knowledge of ancient Egypt is built from multiple source types — inscriptions, papyri, artefacts, and physical remains — and critically evaluate each: what biases, gaps, and distortions exist? Explore how Champollion’s decipherment of hieroglyphs transformed the field, and why the same artefact can be interpreted differently by different scholars

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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.