Everyone is in their seats as the show is about to begin. Domini and Servus take the seat on the front since they're the host. Domini said to them before starting the show.
Domini: First you are all going to learn about history. The first one you're going to react to is the ancient past and empires. Such as Sumeria, Egypt, China, and the Roman Empire.
Korra: Sounds great!
Asami: So which are we going to start first?
Servus: We will start with Sumeria.
The screen showed the TEDEd Logo. After that, a quote that is written
What kind of a scribe is a scribe who does not know Sumerian? - Sumerian Proverb
Everyone is preparing themselves for how they are going to react to this so-called video.
The camera pans over to the Earth as it zooms into the middle east. The narration said.
Narrator: History's first empire rose out of a hot, dry landscape, without rainfall to nourish crops, without trees or stones for building.
Everyone was surprised to hear that this first civilization was hot, dry, and no rainfall to nourish crops. No trees or stones.
Korra: No trees, rainfall, or crops? How did this first civilization survive without that?
Mako: I believe they are a desert. Like the Si Wong Desert, there is civilizations but only a small amount.
Asami: So I assume the first civilization took place in a desert.
Narrator: In spite of all this, its inhabitants built the world's first cities, with monumental architecture and large populations— and they built them entirely out of mud.
Jinora: Mud? like the ones, you made from dirt?
Ikki: Of course what else do you think it is? Sand?
Tenzin: Ikki be quiet!
Ikki: yes dad.
Narrator: Sumer occupied the southern part of modern Iraq in a region called Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia means "Between two rivers" The Tigris and the Euphrates.
Kya: Ah so that's how they grew their crops. They had rivers.
Suyin: Homes made of mud? Now I call that ancient.
Servus then paused the video and explained to them about the Terran Calendar.
Servus: To explain the Terran Calendar better, they use a calendar system called The Common Era. Around the time of Sumeria, it was around 5000 BCE so it would be 5000 Before the Common Era. Do you guys understand?
Bolin: yes I do!
Asami: So what happened at year 1 CE?
Servus: that will be another time
Servus then played the video again.
Narrator: Around 5000 BCE, early Sumerians used irrigation channels, dams, and reservoirs to redirect river water and farm large areas of previously bone-dry land. Agricultural communities like this were slowly springing up around the world, but Sumerians were the first to take the next step.
Pema: How amazing! So the Sumerians were the first to use these farming techniques and not only that they advanced them very well.
Asami on the other hand was taking down notes about this amazing civilization
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