What were sun-baked bricks plastered with mud called?

The answer is Abode.  These are used for building structures such as houses and in cases even tall buildings.  It is used all over the world.  Once they dry, workers begin to use them to build structures and hold them together with mud and straw.  In modern times, cement is now used as a bonding agent whenever these blocks are involved and they are also reinforced by steel rods.  Some structures made from abode bricks still stand today and even modern buildings  in some areas make use of abode as a building material.