A typical Mesopotamian city-state was a sovereign city that and was governed by a ruler independent of other rulers in the region. Each city state consisted of fortification walls that surrounded a temple and multiple buildings. In each of the temples there was a god or goddess which the people served and a Priest who guarded the temple and acted as intermediary between the gods and the people. They also had social classes such as farmers, merchants, craft-makers, and priests. These cities were also characterized by their architectural structures one of which is known as the ziggurat. A ziggurat was a temple complex which included other buildings. The earliest ziggurats began as a platform, the ziggurat was a pyramidal structure with a flat
