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