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