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