9/11
This is the name of the city where the first terrorist attack took place.
What is New York?
This was the decade our country launched its first astronauts to the moon.
What is the 1960's?
The people tied to the land, lived and worked here for their whole lives.
What is a manor?
This city-state invented the type of government we have today in the US.
What is democracy?
A large body of water that stretches between the US and Europe.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This normal type of transportation was turned into a "missile" on 9/11.
What is an airplane?
Rockets were redesigned and in the 1980's the US was able to launch its first one of these.
What is a space shuttle?
These men wore armor, rode horses, and protected their lords and kings.
What is a knight?
This physical geography covered most of Greece.
What are mountains?
Egypt has a lot of this sandy, dry, and hot type of geography.
What is the desert?
The third plane the terrorist hijacked crashed into this building in Washington D.C.
What is the Pentagon?
The USA was in a race with this country to get a man on the moon.
What is Russia?
A "fort" in the middle ages.
What is a castle?
These people had the right to participate in Athens' government.
Who are citizens?
All of the earliest civilizations depended on this type of geography in order to survive and irrigate crops.
What is a river?
It was due to these people that Flight 93 never hit its target.
Who are the passengers?
The astronauts thought that this first problem was going to be the only problem on Apollo 13.
What is an engine failure?
Rodents were responsible for the spreading of a disease that killed half the population of Europe.
What is the Black Death?
Every 4 years the ancient Greeks celebrated Zeus with this event.
What are the Olympics?
In 79 AD Mt. Vesuvius erupted, completely burying this seaside town.
What is Pompeii?
The area where the Twin Towers fell got this new name as it was being searched and cleaned up for the following 5 years.
What is Ground Zero?
This rocket successfully went to the moon after Apollo 13.
What is Apollo 14?
This upper class position was mostly passed on from generation to generation.
What is a king?
The city-state of Athens was angry that this philosopher that was encouraging people to stop believing in the Greek gods.
Who is Socrates?
This land is surrounded on 3 sides by water.
What is a peninsula?