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