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