This document provides a chapter 3 review bingo game with 30 questions about ancient Mesopotamian civilization. Players are instructed to design a bingo board with one review term per space and shout "Bingo" when they have filled a row. The teacher will then review the answers to the questions as they are called out. Some key terms included are Mesopotamia, Fertile Crescent, city-states, writing, Epic of Gilgamesh, and Code of Hammurabi.
3. Design your board, with one word to each space
You may get a word that is 5 across, up/down, or diagonal
Shout out “Bingo!” only if you have Bingo (teacher will double
check the answers)
Teacher reviews questions/answers as they go along
If many students get BINGO, students may switch boards with
other students in the class
Rules
4. Mesopotamia
Fertile Crescent
city-states
monarchy
polytheism
writing
Tigris & Euphrates
almanacs
Marsh Arabs
ziggurat
cuneiform
Epic of Gilgamesh
priests
deities
Babylonian
Assyrian
innovation s
measurement Uruk
empire
Sargon
standing army
tribute
code of Hammurabi
plateau
alluvial plain
silt
Tombs of Ur
Ubaid culture
5. 1. Southern Mesopotamia lies on a low, flat land, also called an
____________________, which is formed from fine soil left behind by
streams or rivers.
Alluvial plain
2. This collection of laws were 282 laws made to change the unfair laws
and clear up the confusing ones
Code of Hammurabi
3. A required payment from one ruler to a more powerful ruler.
Tribute
4. A permanent army of paid soldiers
Standing army
B-I-N-G-O
6. 5. The leader of the army that attacked the Sumerian city-states
Sargon
6. Many Sumerians offered sacrifices to the ______________ that
they believed control nature
deities
7. This group of people lived closest to the ziggurat in Sumer
priests
8. The most famous tale about a King
Epic of Gilgamesh
B-I-N-G-O
7. 9. Sumerians developed this system of writing
cuneiform
10. Clay tablets of cuneiform were found in this city
Uruk
B-I-N-G-O
8. 11. These buildings often showed that religion was important in
Sumer
ziggurat
12. Sumerians developed standards of ___________
measurement
13. These writings included information that described the best
way to plant, irrigate land, and to care for crops
Almanacs
14. The Sumerians were known for their many ______________, or
new ways of doing things
innovations
B-I-N-G-O
9. 15. The remains of the Ubaid village showed it was a highly
developed because of the discovers in the ______ ____ ______
Tombs of Ur
16. Sumerians practiced ___________ , the belief in many gods
polytheism
17. ________________ allowed Sumerians to get more jobs, record
history, and created social classes.
Writing
18. The Sumarians formed the world’s first ______________, or
governing system ruled by a king or a queen
monarchy
B-I-N-G-O
10. 19. This usually had a wall, farmland around it, economic surplus,
and an independent government
City-State
20. Sumerians practiced ___________ , the belief in many gods
polytheism
21. This culture was known for its advanced irrigation systems and
painted pottery
The Ubaid culture
22. This culture lived in the largest wetlands and lived on boats
made up of reeds/grass
The Marsh Arabs
B-I-N-G-O
11. 23. Although floods were harmful to Southern Mesopotamia, they
deposited __________, which made the soil fertile
silt
24. A high, flat land
plateau
25. Sumer was one of the first civilizations that formed in the valley
between what two rivers?
Tigris & Euphrates
26. “The Land Between Two Rivers” is the meaning of…
Mesopotamia
27. Because there is rich soil found in Mesopotamia, it is often called
the _________________ _________________
Fertile crescent
B-I-N-G-O
12. 28. Sargon created the world’s first ______________
empire
29. This empire was the largest empire in the world & were great
innovators
Assyrian
30. King Nebuchadnezzar was an emperor in the _________ empire
Babylonian
B-I-N-G-O