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Explain the life of common people in ur city?

Answer» \t\tIn Mesopotamian society\xa0the nuclear family\xa0was the norm,although a married son and his family often resided with his parents.The father was the head of the family.We know a little about the\xa0procedures 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.Ur was one of the earliest cities to have been excavated in Mesopotamia.\xa0Narrow winding streets\xa0indicate that wheeled carts could not have reached many of the houses. Sacks of grain and firewood would have arrived on donkey-back. Narrow winding streets and the irregular shapes of house plots also indicate an absence of town planning.\xa0There were no street drains\xa0of the kind we find in contemporary Mohenjo-daro. Drains and clay pipes were instead found in the inner courtyards of the Ur houses and it is thought that house roofs sloped inwards and rainwater was channeled via the drainpipes into sump sin the inner courtyards.Yet people seem to have\xa0swept all their household refuses into the streets, to be trodden underfoot!This made street levels rise, and over time the thresholds of houses had also to be raised so that no mud would flow inside after the rains.Light came into the rooms not from windows but from\xa0doorways opening into the courtyards: this would also havegiven families their privacy.\t\t\xa0


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