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