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