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