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