Question

the early temples were more like house write about early temples of Mesopotamia​

Answer 1

Early Temples were more like a house. Below given is the description about early temples of Mesopotamia.

Explanation:

• Temples overtime developed huge structures, built in shape of step pyramids. But early temple were much like house.
• They were small shrines made of unbaked bricks except that had outer walls going in and out at regular intervals unlike ordinary building.
• Early temples were like a house because:

(i) The temple symbolize the community as a whole and was the nucleus around which the city developed.

(ii) It was here that the processing of produce- grain grinding, spinning, weaving was done as in household.

(iii) The rulers of early Mesopotamia's cities were priests. They lived and administered from there. Since temples were used for residential purposes they looked like houses.

(iv) The complex was not only a place of rituals and worship but contained warehouses, workshops and living quarters of artisans.

• Mesopotamia is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. Mesopotamia occupies most of present-day Iraq and Kuwait.
• The original pyramidal structure, the "Anu Ziggurat" dates to the Sumerians around 4000 BCE, and the White Temple was built on top of it circa 3500 BCE.