Unit 2 Vocabulary Quiz (A) Review

Open acceptance of other people's beliefs and customs.

• toleration
• polytheism
• civilization
• empire

A set of written rules for people to obey.

• social class
• hemisphere
• hunter-gatherer
• code of law

An individual trained to write and keep records.

• hunter-gatherer
• surplus
• scribe
• Mesopotamia

A belief in more than one god or goddess.

• fertile
• polytheism
• artifact
• silt

A political unit including a city and the surrounding farmlands.

• geography
• Mesopotamia
• social class
• city-state

A complex society that has cities, a well-organized government, and workers with specialized job skills

• civilization

• empire

• city-state

• toleration

A group of territories and peoples brought together under the rule of one supreme leader.

• city-state
• continent
• Mesopotamia
• empire

A fine fertile soil deposited by a flooding river.

• artifact
• surplus
• silt
• secondary source

The area of Southwest Asia located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that is home to many early civilizations.

• continent
• Mesopotamia
• city-state
• hemisphere

Having little rainfall and warm temperatures

• bronze

• semiarid

• exile

• province