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प्रश्न
Why would the early temple have been much like a house?
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उत्तर
- From 5000 BCE, early settlers in Mesopotamia began to build temples in their villages.
- The earliest known temple was a small shrine made of unbaked bricks.
- They believed that the temples were the houses or residences of various gods: of the Moon God of Ur, or of Inanna the Goddess of Love and War.
- Their temples were larger, and had several rooms around open courtyards.
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