The rise and fall of history’s first empire - Soraya Field Fiorio
Directed by Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat · Starring Susan Zimmerman · 2020
An animated lesson tracing how Sumer built the world's first cities and writing system out of mud, and how its empire eventually fell.
A crisp, beautifully animated crash course in how civilisation itself began.
Discover history’s first empire: Sumer, located in Mesopotamia, which built the world’s first cities and created the first writing system.
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