The promontories that Bede describes in A History of the English Church and People are peaks of high coastal land.
I believe that would be Mesopotamia, the seat of the Sumerian and Akkadian civilizations.
Source: Studied this last week. :)
They should find out the best areas and times to plant food/crops to increase crop yields.
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The answer is comet.
Comets are mainly ice. They orbit around the sun with a periods that varie from few years to tens of millions of years.
An asteroid is composed of rocks, metals or both.
Meteorites are meteors that get the earth and are composed of rocks and metals or both.
Meteors: