White Temple/Ziggurat

Uruk (modern Worka Iraq) Sumerian 3500-3000 Mud Brick

Mesopatamia (land between two rivers) is the first place Neolithic Revolution occurred.

by adopting a style or technique of a culture, the new culture may proclaim that they are the same as the previous culture. By adopting a style or technique but a different content or message that new culture may want to show how they are different.

Uruk had the first major strucuture in the world, the white temple. The main temple and its platform were the main center of the city.

Mud brick because there was no stones in the area. Mud brick is durable but can be damaged by water resulting in the lack of architecture.

Ziggurat topped with a Temple

one stairway to the top- Bent axis- and is typical of Sumerian Temples

Place of worship and rituals

prayer for renewal of the binding of the chaos of the universe

Temple is called the waiting room- belief that the deity would come down into the temple

the more laborious the work, the greater the importance of the work.

Art and architecture in the ancient world is a form of propaganda. ziggurat is a form of propaganda for the ruler