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    1) In ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur, the typical family structure was a nuclear family headed by the father, though married sons sometimes lived with their parents. 2) Marriage procedures involved a declaration of willingness by the bride's parents, followed by gift exchanges at the wedding between the parties and offerings at a temple. 3) The narrow, irregular streets of Ur, which prevented wheeled carts from many houses, indicate an absence of urban planning. Rainwater drained into sumps in inner house courtyards rather than streets.

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    1) In ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur, the typical family structure was a nuclear family headed by the father, though married sons sometimes lived with their parents. 2) Marriage procedures involved a declaration of willingness by the bride's parents, followed by gift exchanges at the wedding between the parties and offerings at a temple. 3) The narrow, irregular streets of Ur, which prevented wheeled carts from many houses, indicate an absence of urban planning. Rainwater drained into sumps in inner house courtyards rather than streets.

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    1) In ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur, the typical family structure was a nuclear family headed by the father, though married sons sometimes lived with their parents. 2) Marriage procedures involved a declaration of willingness by the bride's parents, followed by gift exchanges at the wedding between the parties and offerings at a temple. 3) The narrow, irregular streets of Ur, which prevented wheeled carts from many houses, indicate an absence of urban planning. Rainwater drained into sumps in inner house courtyards rather than streets.

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    HISTORY

    PROJECT
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    LIFE IN THE CITY OF
    UR
    1) In Mesopotamian society the nuclear family was the norm, although a
    married son and his family often resided with his parents and the father was the
    head of the family.
    2) Procedures for marriage. A declaration was made about the willingness to
    marry by the bride’s parents. When the wedding took place, gifts were
    exchanged by both parties, who ate together and made offerings in a temple.
    3)Ur was one of the earliest cities to have been excavated in Mesopotamia.
    Narrow streets indicate that wheeled carts could not reached many of the
    houses. Sacks of grain and firewood would have arrived on donkey-back. Narrow
    streets and the irregular shapes of house plots indicate absence of town
    planning.
    There were no street drains of that kind we find in contemporary Mohenjo-daro. Drains and clay pipes were
    instead found in the inner courtyards of the Ur houses and it thought that house roofs sloped inwards and
    rainwater was channeled via the drainpipes into sumps in the inner courtyards.
    Yet people seem to have through all their household refuses into the streets, to be trodden under foot. This
    made street levels rise, andover time the thresholds of houseshad also to be raised so that no mud would
    flow inside after therains.
    Light came into the rooms not from 8
    windows but from doorways
    opening into the courtyard and this
    would also had given families their
    privacy.
    .

    There were superstitions about houses recorded in omen tablets at Ur:


    1.A raised threshold brought wealth.
    2.A front door that did not open towards another house was
    lucky.
    3. If the main wooden door of a house opened outwards the
    wife would be a torment to her husband.
    There was a town cemetery at Ur in which the graves of royalty and commoners
    have been found, but a few individuals were found buried under the floors of
    ordinary houses. Dead bodies of royal family were buried with jewellery, gold
    vessels, wooden musical instruments inlaid with white shell and lapis lazuli,
    ceremonial daggers of gold, etc.

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