When Houses Were First Built?

Man began to build a home, a shelter for himself and his family, thousands and thousands years ago. The kind of homes people built long ago depended almost completely upon the climate in which they lived, the building materials that were close at hand, and the danger they faced in their daily lives. So we cannot say such and such a “house” were first ever built.

For example, when the stone ax was invented thousands of years ago, wood began to play an important part in home-building. So early man was already building himself houses of wood.

On the other hand, in ancient times, people living in warm climate found that grass houses were easy to make and comfortable to live in. so all over the wet, hot grasslands of Africa and so some of the island of the South Pacific, houses were made up of grasses, leaves, and vines that grew nearby.

Thousands of years ago people who lived in hot, dry climates found a way to make fine walls for their home. They plastered a stick mixture of clay and mud over house walls of loosely woven twigs. The mud plaster dried hard in the sun and stuck firmly to the house walls.

The ancient Egyptians are believed to have been among the first to discover how to make bricks. In Mesopotamia primitive people later developed a way of making a sun-dried brick harder and stronger. They placed molded brick in a hot fire and “burned” them. Later on, the ancient Assyrians found out how to burn a glaze onto their bricks. Such bricks have lasted for thousands of years.