Mesopotamia Bingo - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. farming- grow crops raise livestock
2. silt-rich soil/tiny rock
3. surplus- more than needed
4. Tigris major river to north mesopotamia
5. irrigation-supply water area of land
6. Fertile Crescent-rich fertile farmland
7. epics-long poem told story of heroes
8. stylus-used to write with
9. ziggurat-pyramid shape temple
10. rural-countryside
11. social hierarchy-division by rank/class
12. Euphrates-major river of mesopotamia
13. Priests perform religious ceremonies
14. river- fresh flowing water
15. Akkadian empire north of sumer
16. wheel- invention
17. floods- rivers overflowed
18. canals-human made waterways
19. urban-city area
20. city-state-city countryside around it
21. pictographspicture symbols
22. empire- territories/people under one rule
23. Cuneiform-first writing system
24. scribe-writier