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100

fine particles of rock

silt


100

a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding

a levee


100

An ability or skill

capability

100

the study of money, jobs, trade and business



economics

100

a time before writing 

prehistory

200
people who study artifacts

archaelogists


200

a type of source where someone was there to witness it

primary source


200

an area in Southern Mesopotamia where cities first appeared

Sumer

200

A person who studies the past

historian

200

an important place known for its soil

fertile crescent

300

an early ancestor of humans

hominins

300

a tool used to make other tools

hammerstone


300

the means of supplying land with water

irrigation

300

An object made by humans

artifact

300

to move from one place to another

migrate

400

one of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf

Tigris or Euphrates River

400

the study of land and where people live

geography

400

an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government

city-states

400

A belief system or tradition that people believe in

religion

400

to supply land with water

irrigation

500

people in civilizations making decisions, agreements and run a government



politics
500

in ancient times, the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers



Mesopotamia

500

a tool used to dig into the ground to plant seeds

plow

500

prehistoric tools were mostly made out of 

stone and animal bones

500

what were the two capabilities of hominins

walking on two feet and making tools