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.

https://youtu.be/XBk9KywTIgk

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

Narrator: Using clay bricks made from river mud, they began to build multi-storied homes and temples.  They invented the wheel, a potter's wheel for turning mud into household goods and tools. 

Opal: Turning mud into clay to make homes, goods, and tools. These people are smart

Hiroshi: Yeah, even during their primitive stage, the Sumerians were way ahead of their time.

Narrator: Those clay bricks gave rise to the world's first cities. Probably around 4500 BCE

Mako: If I remember correctly the Terrans are in the year 2345 CE.

Everyone was shocked to hear that was such a long time ago.

Asami: That's a long time ago. 

Narrator: At the top of the city's social ladder were priests and priestesses. Who were considered nobility. Then merchants, craftspeople, farmers, and enslaved people.

Zhu Li: So they had an organized Social Class. 

Lin: yeah, something that the Fire Nation used during the 100-year war. 

Narrator: The Sumerian Empire consisted of distinct city-states that operated like small nations. They were looked linked by language and spiritual belief. But lacked centralized control. The earliest cities were Uruk, Ur, and Eridu. And eventually, there were a dozen cities.

Bumi: The three major ancient cities. Each has its flaws and best interest. I really hope they didn't fight each other.

Narrator: Each had a King who served a role somewhere between a priest and a ruler. Sometimes they fought against each other to conquer new territories.

Bumi: I said to soon.....

Narrator: Each city was dedicated to a patron deity, considered the city's founder. The largest and most important city was this patron god's home. te ziggurat a temple designed as a stepped pyramid.

Asami: A ZIggurat? 

Servus: yes it was like a religious temple to worship their gods and goddesses. Here I'll show you a reconstruction of what they looked like.

Asami: Amazing! 

Tenzin: Impressive!

Suyin: Very stunning

Korra: That temple was just made out of clay, I wonder how long will it last?

Narrator: Around 3200 BCE, Sumerians began to expand their reach. The potter's wheel found a new home on chariots and wagons. They built boats out of reeds and date palm leaves, with linen sails that carried the vast distances by river and sea. To supplement scarce resources, they build a trade network with rising kingdoms in Egypt, Anatolia, and Ethiopia. Importing gold, silver, lapis lazuli, and cedarwood. 

Hiroshi: As I said, the Sumerians were way ahead of their time. These people are truly amazing! They invented ships, advanced farming, invented the wheel, made chariots and wagons. What else is there?

Narrator: Trade was the unlikely impetus for the invention of the first writing system. It started as a system of accounting for Sumerian merchants conducting business with traders abroad. After a few hundred years, the early pictogram system called cuneiform turned into a script.

Asami: There you go father, The Sumerians created the first language and writing system. 

Narrator: The Sumerians created the first written laws and created the first school system, designed to teach the craft of writing and pioneered less exciting innovations like bureaucracy and taxes.

Varrick: So they invented farming, the wheel, chariots, wagons, language, schools, bureaucracy, taxes, and trading? Ugh! I can't get all of that in my head!

Zhu Li: it's ok honey, just watch and you'll understand more.

Narrator: In the schools, scribes study from dawn to dusk. from childhood well into adulthood. They learned accounting, mathematics, and copied works of literature hymns, myths, proverbs, animal fables, magic spells, and the first epics on clay tablets.

Hiroshi: oh my goodness this is too much to handle

Hiroshi said as he placed his hand onto his forehead

Narrator: Some of those tablets told the story of Gilgamesh.

Korra: Gilgamesh? Like a legend or a myth?

Narrator: A king of the city of Uruk who was also the subject of mythical tales. But by the 3rd Millennium BCE, Sumer was no longer the only empire around or Mesipotamia. 

Asami: Of Course there have to be more civilizations out there that are much more advanced than Sumer. 

Narrator: Waves of nomadic tribes poured into the region from the north and east. Some newcomers looked up to the Sumerians, adopting their way of life, and using the cuneiform script to express their own languages.

Pema: it's great to see Immigrants trying to adapt to the Sumerian lifestyle and following the laws. 

Narrator: in 2300 BCE, the Akkadian Sargon conquered the Sumerian city-states. But Sargon respected Sumerian culture and Akkadians and Sumerians existed side-by-side for centuries. 

Tenzin: At first I thought this would end very badly, but thank goodness they were able to co-exist.

Narrator: Other invading groups focused only on looting and destruction. Even as Sumerian culture spread, a steady onslaught of invasions killed off the Sumerian people by 1750 BCE.

Everyone was shocked to hear this. The first civilization was destroyed by invaders and slaughtering them to death. As a result of their extinction.

Asami: NO! Why would they do that!

Korra: Barbarians!

Kuvira: Well eventually everything will come to an end. Although I am very impressed with the Sumerians, they relentlessly allowed invaders to take over their nations and put them into extinction. So, this is another reason why immigration can be a problem. 

Afterward, Sumer disappeared back into the desert dirt, not to be rediscovered until the 19th century.

Asami: Well at least it was rediscovered.

Narrator: But  Sumerian culture lived on for thousands of years first though the Akkadians, then the Assyrians, then the Babylonians. The Babylonians passed Sumerian invention and traditions through along Hebrew, Greek, and Roman Cultures. Some persist today.

The video fades to black. Servus and Domini went up the stage and began asking them

Domini: So any questions or comments. Or Any thoughts.

Asami: well at least they had a legacy to pass it down.

Korra: Who exactly killed off the Sumerians? 

Domini: Well A drought hit the Sumerian Empire. During the drought, waves of Marauding nomads invaded Sumerian ransacking the Capital city of Ur. 

Hiroshi: All I can say is that the Sumerians are way ahead of their time.

Domini: I totally agree. They invented a lot of stuff and they passed it down to many other nations. Now, before the next segment, there's food and drink at the ext door and there are separate restrooms if you want to go. There are also libraries, laboratories, and everything else you provide for your needs.

Pema: What a sweet god you are

Domini chucked at her compliment.

Domini: Maybe, but please I will rather be called Domini. It sounds formal, which bores me a lot.

Afterward, they got out of their seats and went to a different room while some went to the restroom. 

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After 10 minutes of an intermission, they all went back to their seats with food. Some food came from their culture, while most of the food they got was from Terran culture. While people like Tenzin, Pema, Kuvira, Bumi, and Kya got their traditional culture food, People like Korra, Bolin, Asami, Mako, Opal, Suyin, and many others got themselves food from Terran Culture.

Korra has a plate of spaghetti with marinara sauce and meatballs. 

Asami has a medium-rare cooked of Filet Mignon with asparagus, and mashed potatoes. She could smell the beef from her nose. 

Mako got some Mexican food. He got himself two tacos with rice, and bean dip with Sour Cream. 

Bolin has a French Cusine plate. 

Domini: So everyone are you ready for the next segment?

Asami: I am!

Korra: As long I got something good to eat, then yes

Domini: Alright. Our next lesson is in Egypt. Ancient Egypt is known to be one of the most famous civilizations to exist in Terran history. They created huge monument pyramids and of course their long-term history. 

Then Domini began to play a video about Ancient Egypt

https://youtu.be/hO1tzmi1V5g

Narrator: The Ancient Egyptian civilization lasted for over 3000 years and became one of the most powerful iconic civilizations in history.

Tenzin: 3000 years? That's a long time. 

Narrator: At its height, Egypt's empire stretched as far north as modern-day Syria and as far south as today's Sudan.

Varrick: Putting that in an Ancient's perspective, that is considered big for them. Unlike the Earth Empire that stretches longer than this Egypt. 

Narrator: but long before it was an empire ancient Egpyt was a series of small independent city-states that bloomed along north Africa's Nile River. 

Tenzin: Just like Sumeria. They started off as small independent city-states and became this vast empire. 

Pema: Not only that, they also had rivers and it was just a plain desert.

Narrator: The city-states were divided into two regions and named according to the Nile. Upper Egypt in the south which was upstream, and Lower Egypt in the North which was downstream. 

Hiroshi: That is kinda confusing!

Kuvira: Well that's is stupid! Why would you name Northern Egypt Lower and Southern Egypt Upper? Why based on a river flow?

Asami: Well Kuvira, first this was Ancient Humanity on their Earth and probably didn't have any accurate maps at that time, and second I kinda understand your point, but again the river flowed in that or this direction to make it easier for them.

Everyone nodded but understood that it was named after the Nile River flow and not based on its geography. 

Narrator: About 3100 BC, the two halves United.

Mako: Well, it looks like they decided to come together and help each other out. 

Mako smiled

Bolin: I knew they would Unite somehow.

Narrator: Thereby creating one Egpytion states that lasted for a Millenium.

Suyin: Amazing!

Kya: A Millenium? Wow, not even as long as the Sumerians did.

The next scene showed the three periods of Egypt.

Narrator: The reign of the civilization can be divided into three major periods of prosperity called the old, middle, and new kingdoms and two periods of instability and in between called the first and the second intermediate periods.

Asami: A long historical period and instability. They were also to remain intact after many periods. How amazing is that? 

Asami said as she took a bite of her filet mignon. 

Asami: wow this steak is good. It's buttery and leans at the same time.

The next scene showed what seems to be drawings of the Egyptians and their hieroglyphics. The narrator continued. 

Narrator: Guiding the Egyptian people was a succession of about 300 rulers often referred to as pharaohs.

Kurvira: Egyptian leaders are called Pharaohs.

Domini: Yes they were Kings or Queens of Egypt. 

Kuvira nodded.

Narrator: Pharaoh which means great house in Egpytian was never the ruler's formal title. It became synonymous with the ruling individual in modern times. Thanks to it used in the Hebrew bible.

Korra: Hebrew Bible?

Domini: Correct, the Hebrew bible is a religious scripture used by a group of people called Jews. But that topic is for another time.

Narrator: These rulers who were not always men or Egpytian were considered protectors of the people and served as divine liaisons between humanity and the hundreds of gods they worship.

Korra: Hundreds of Gods? 

Domini: Yup that is called Polytheism, or sometimes Paganism.

Meelo: Pagan? That sounds yummy!

Ikki laughed at Meelo's statement

Tenzin: Paganism? Now that is something I would like to learn.

Narrator: After the rulers passed away, Ancient Egyptians believed they then become gods. To prepare their journey into the afterlife, the rulers constructed elaborate tombs including the great pyramids at Giza. A Mausoleum in the valley of the kings.

The video showed the interior design of the pyramids. 

Asami: So that's what the pyramids are used for. For Kings and Queens to be buried at these mausoleums. 

Korra: But these Pyramids were huge! How could these ancient people be able to create such huge monuments? 

Domini: Well I can say is that it took a long time to create such fine monuments. But to this day, the Pyramids are very controversial on how it's built. Some say the Egyptians were way ahead of their time, and some same extraterrestrials came down to visit the Egyptians and helped them build these monuments. 

Lin: Extraterrestrials?

Kya: As in? Aliens? 

Domini: Yes, in fact extraterrestrials do exist. Well, there is me and Servus. But in prior of the Milky Way Galaxy, I can say there is about Millions of Extraterrestrial species living in the galaxy. That goes for the same as your galaxy.

Asami: I knew it! I should've known those UFO Sightings were indeed otherworldly beings!

Asami said as she shouted that out. After calming down they went back to watch the film.

Narrator: Rulers filled their tombs with all the items they could need in the afterlife. Including gold, jewelry, food, drink, and even pets.

Then the video showed all the items that were used including the pets. 

Korra: Damn! these Pharaohs must be rich! If they had all of those materialistic items. 

Narrator: Preparing for this journey to the gods also mummifying one body

Pema: Mummifying, what does that mean?

Domini: Watch...

Narrator: The deceased corpse was embalmed wrapped n hundreds of yards of linen and placed in the tomb so the body is reanimated in the afterlife.

Asami: Oh embalmed. Like in draining fluids out of a dead body.

Narrator: To this day, structures like the great pyramid are a testament to the role of religion in ancient Egyptian lives. but they also represent the innovative, and cultural might of the Egyptian people. 

Tenzin: I am amazed to see Ancient Egyptian culture is still praised for a long time. Even during this humanities period into the stars. I just wish Air Nomadic culture would be still praised like the Egyptian culture.

Pema: I agree, if it wasn't for Sozin destroying our culture, and the people. 

Narrator: Innovations in mathematics and written language, in particular, propelled their civilization to success. 

Suyin: Just like the Sumerians

Kya nodded in agreement

Narrator: Math Specifically, measurement mathematics helped understand and harness their world with numbers as no other civilization has done before.

Hiroshi: Ah, so the Egyptians have advanced the mathematics. Unlike the Sumerians, the Egyptains were able to create the first measurement system. 

Narrator: They developed a form of measurement called the cubit. It was used to design massive structures such as the great pyramids. With a remarkable geometrical precision.

As they showed the pyramid, they also showed the size of the pyramids.

Asami: 440 Cubits? What is that in inches?

Domini: About 7000 inches wide

Asami couldn't believe how huge it was. These Egyptians were smart and they were really ahead of time. 

Narrator: The egyptaisn were also to measure time. combing mathematics with astronomy they established a 24 hours divison to the day and created a soalr calendar. Which is the fisrt dating system in hsitory to feature 365 days in one year.

Asami: Just like us. We have a 24 hours system. And the Egyptians were able to sucessfuly measure time.

Varrick: How though? I'm pretty sure working clocks weren't invented during the ancient times.

Narrator: lastly, Egyptians developed methods to measure and survey land around the nile rver. These civil engineering feats made way for the construciotn of dams, canals, and irrigation systems that helped farming and argriculture to flourish in the nile valley. 

Hiroshi: Isn't that amazing! They put math into everything. From building huge pyramids, into making dams, cnaals and irrigation. Math is truly universal.

Narrator: In addition to mathematics concept, the ancient egyptians also created a written languge to descrie the world around them. The oldest and probobly most well-known of these is hieroglyphic writing.

Then they showed what it appears to be a stone with hieroglyphics.

Lin: Rosetta Stone? 

Domini: It's a giant stone created by the ancietns egyptiains. they were able to use the stone to create the lanauge they wish to write.

Narrator: This system was develoepd around 3150 BC during the old kingdom and has over 700 pictorial characters. It was used to describe monument and pottery and predomiante serve as decorative or ceremonial purpose. Another wirirng called dieratic developed out of the hieroglyphic system.

Tenzin: Another lanauge appeared in Egpyt? 

Zhu Li: That what the video is saying. 

Narrator it was a form of cursivbe that was written in ink and served a more funcitonal purpose. Unlike it's more formal predecessor hieratic was written on another ancient egpyitan innovation. Papyrus. Derived from the papyrtus plant which grew plentifully along the nile river.

Asami: invented a measure ment system, paper, two languages and developed great monuments. I am very impressed.

Narrator: Along the Nile river, this medium gave the ancient Egyptians a new aveneu of communicaiton and record keeping that allowed their civilation administartion skill to grow and cultuer to spread for thousands of years.

Tenzin: this is important. We must keep track of history and record keeping so that future generations can understand the past and learn from it. 

Narrator: As with great empires, Ancient Egypt came to an end.

Kuvira: Eventually all great things will come to an end. 

Narrator: It was eventually conquered after a series of invasions including the Persian Empire in the 4th Century BC, and the Roman Empire in 30 BC.

Domini: Speaking of that, we will be talking about the Roman Empire after we're done with China. 

Narrator: Not many civilzation can claimn a lifespan of over 3000 years. Let alone one that made vast cutural contributions that still resonate in modern times. Ancient Egypt with it's linguistic and mathematical innovations, spirituality and religion and extensive polticla military might. It set a high standar for all civilzation that followed. 

THe video finally faded to a black as everyone applauded that video.

Domini stood up and said to everyone.

Domini: So guys what do you think of Ancient Egypt?

Asami: The Egpytians are amazing! 

Bolin: They were able to create huge pyramids

Mako: They were able to use Math on almost everything. 

Kya: The Pharohs really interested me more

Lin: You can say the same thing 

Lin said as she looked at Kya. 

Hiroshi: You know I would love to visit Egypt and see the pyraminds upclose. Lord Domini is that possible?

Domini: I could make some arragements but another time though.

Tenzin: I'm more interested in their religon and believing that the Pharohs would ascend to godhood. Including the mummification. 

Domini: I'm glad you enjoy the Ancient Egyptians, but there are some other things I should tell you about Ancient Egypt. 

Domini then showed an image of the Great Sphinx of Giza.

Korra: Oh yeah! I've noticed one of those in the video. What are thoses statues?

Domini: This is called teh Great Sphinx of Ginza. It has a head of a man, and a body of a lion. It represents Ra-Horakthy a form of the powerful sun god. Fascinating stuff!

Korra: Yeah!

Korra said as she and Asami looked at each other and smiled, and back to Domini. 

Domini: Now there is one more thing I want to tell you. There was this King named King Tutankhamun. He was a Pharaoh who became the Pharoah at the age of 9. 

Wu: Wow! Another young king like me!

Domini: Unfortunetly he died when he was only 19 years old. He died from malaria. A disease that you don't want to get. But that's not the important part. After his death, there is an ancient curse associated iwth the mommy's and tomb. Those who disturb King Tut's tomb would bring them bad luck, illness and death. Shortly after discoveirng his tomb, an archeologist who rediscovered Tut's tomb died from natural causes.

This made some of them people shiver while some people like Kuvira stood in silence not believing in curses or anything. 

Domini: So anyways now we are done with Sumer and Egpyt, our next lesson is China and the Roman Empire. But before we began, there will be more new guest arriving at this theater room. 

Korra: Oh? Who is coming to this theater room? 

Domini: They will be here in 3 seconds.

After that three seconds, the doors wide opened showing a bright light in the background. Everyone looked in shocked to see who they were. Korra, Tenzin, Jinora, Ikki, and Meelo were more shocked to see who it was. 

Just who are these guest arriving in the same theater room with the gang and Domini? Find out in the next chapter.

TO BE CONTINUED.