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What buildings did the Sumerians build?
Mostly what the Sumerians built was huge staircases of mud-brick which they called ziggurats. Each little city-state would build its own ziggurat, partly to please the gods and partly to show how powerful the town was. On top of each ziggurat, there was a small temple to Ishtar or Enlil or another Mesopotamian god.
What was the main building in each Sumerian city?
There were seven great city-states, each with its own king and a building called a ziggurat, a large pyramid-shaped building with a temple at the top, dedicated to a Sumerian deity.
What were the most impressive buildings of the Sumerians?
City centers were dominated by their temples, the largest and most impressive buildings in Sumer. A ziggurat, a pyramid- shaped temple, rose high above each city.
What were the most prominent buildings in Mesopotamia?
Ziggurats. One of the most remarkable achievements of Mesopotamian architecture was the development of the ziggurat, a massive structure taking the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels, with a shrine or temple at the summit.
