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