Homo Sapiens and Early Human Migration

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Why do they call it the Fertile Crescent?

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The land was fertile and shaped like a crescent moon.

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What is cuneiform?

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the first writing system

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What is a ziggurat?

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a temple where the priests worshiped their gods

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What was the primary reason that civilization first developed in Mesopotamia?

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The soil was fertile because of flood deposits and silt.

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An archaeologist...

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digs up and studies artifacts to learn about people from the past

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A geologist...

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studies rocks and the earth

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A fossil is

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the bones, imprints, or remains of something living from long ago

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Artifact

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something manmade that is left behind from people long ago

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Which object would an archaeologist NOT study?

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computer websites

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Why do archaeologists think early humans began in Africa?

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They found the fossils of the earliest humans there.