# Grade 6: Social studies

A course roadmap (social-studies). Language: en. By @si. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. 0 of 12 concepts ready. In the app: https://ai.page/roadmap/tn-ss-grade-6

Part of: [Tennessee: Social studies](https://ai.page/roadmap/tn-ss.md)

Goal: Tennessee academic standards: Social studies, Grade 6

## 1. Students will analyze the geographic, political, economic, and cultural structures of ancient Rome.

- [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
- [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

## 2. Students will analyze the geographic, political, economic, and cultural structures of ancient Greece.

- [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
- [Athens Versus Sparta](https://ai.page/c/athens-versus-sparta/index.md): Compare Athens and Sparta as two very different Greek city-states: Athens focused on learning, arts, debate, and democracy, while Sparta focused on military training, discipline, and obedience — and understand that a city-state was a city that ruled itself like a small country
- [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

## 3. Students will analyze the geographic, political, economic, and cultural structures of ancient India.

- [Ancient Egypt's Lasting Legacy](https://ai.page/c/ancient-egypt-s-lasting-legacy/index.md): Evaluate ancient Egypt's lasting legacy: the Egyptians developed early forms of medicine, mathematics (used to build pyramids and survey land after floods), astronomy (calendar based on star observations), and engineering that influenced later civilisations including Greece and Rome — and compare ancient Egypt with other early civilisations (Mesopotamia, Indus Valley, Shang Dynasty) to identify shared features like writing, agriculture, cities, and organised religion

## 4. Students will analyze the geographic, political, economic, and cultural structures of ancient Egypt.

- [Egyptian Social Hierarchy](https://ai.page/c/egyptian-social-hierarchy/index.md): Describe the social structure of ancient Egypt as a pyramid-shaped hierarchy: the pharaoh at the top, then priests and nobles, followed by scribes and soldiers, then craftworkers and merchants, and farmers and labourers at the base — understanding that a person's position was usually inherited and determined their whole way of life
- [Upper and Lower Egypt](https://ai.page/c/upper-and-lower-egypt/index.md): Understand that ancient Egypt was divided into Upper Egypt (the narrow river valley in the south) and Lower Egypt (the wide delta in the north), that the two lands were united under one pharaoh, and that Egyptians managed the Nile's water through irrigation canals and shadufs to grow crops year-round

## 5. Students will learn proper time designations and analyze the development and characteristics of civilizations, including the effects of the Agricultural Revolution.

- [Vocabulary: historical thinking](https://ai.page/c/vocabulary-historical-thinking/index.md): Know and use the vocabulary of historical thinking — source, evidence, primary source, secondary source, artefact, chronology, chronological order, BC/BCE, AD/CE, century, decade, era, period, timeline, excavation, archaeologist, interpretation, corroborate, bias, perspective — and apply these terms when discussing how we know about the past and how reliable our knowledge is

## 6. Ancient Egypt: c. 3000-700 BC: Students will analyze the geographic, political, economic, and cultural structures of ancient Egypt. · Describe the social structure of ancient Egyptian society, includi

- [Ancient Egypt on the Timeline](https://ai.page/c/ancient-egypt-on-the-timeline/index.md): Place ancient Egypt on a timeline spanning over 3,000 years — from around 3100 BCE (unification under the first pharaoh) to 30 BCE (Roman conquest) — understanding that this civilisation lasted longer than the time between the Romans and today, and was divided into major periods: the Old Kingdom (pyramid age), Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom (empire age)

## 7. Ancient Egypt: c. 3000-700 BC: Students will analyze the geographic, political, economic, and cultural structures of ancient Egypt. · Identify and locate on a map geographical and political features o

- [Egyptian Timelines and Maps](https://ai.page/c/egyptian-timelines-and-maps/index.md): Read and construct historical timelines — place Ancient Egyptian periods, pharaohs, and key events on a timeline relative to each other and to the present day; interpret maps showing the Nile delta, trade routes, and the location of key sites

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Credit: The structure of Tennessee academic standards: Social studies (https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/stateboardofeducation/documents/standards/social-studies-2022-2023/TN%20Academic%20Social%20Studies%20Standards_25.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.