They were build about in 1854
to honor the gods
the slaves built the ziggurats and if your wondering it took over 180 slaves to build a ziggurat
The Mesopotamians famously built ziggurats.
Ziggurats
The Sumerians are known for building ziggurats that were close to the sky to be closer to heaven.
Maybe because it meant a lot to them and cared more about them
The fertile crescent culture, where people built ziggurats or pyramid-shaped temples, was located in Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia encompassed the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in present-day Iraq, Kuwait, and parts of Syria and Iran. The ancient civilizations of Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria developed in this region.
Ziggurats are constructed of clay brick. In the desert regions of Mesopotamia, all you needed was dirt, water, and the sun. All of those materials were bountiful in the area they lived in.
Probably not in the earliest of times but as these civilisations acquired empires the answer must be yes
why were ziggurats so large
The ziggurats were invented in Mesopotamia.