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