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