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