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Ancient Mesopotamia CBRT Script (Revised DRAFT) 1 Good evening, time travelers! 2 All 3 Thank you for booking a tour with... Back to the Past Tours! [gesture] [sound effect] Please fasten your seatbelts... 4 All and set your dials for 5000 BC! Five thousand BC! [sound effect] [sound effect] 1 Tonight’s destination— All The “cradle of civilization” [gesture] [sound effect] Ancient Mesopotamia! What in the world is a Mesopotamia? 5 All Mesopotamia comes from 2 Greek words. [gesture] 1 2 Mesos means “Middle.” Potamos means “River.” All Mesopotamia! The land between two rivers! [gesture] [sound effect] 1 Mesopotamia was located between the calming waters of the Tigris and Euphrates All 1 The What? [gesture] The Tigris and Euphrates are rivers! All 6 Oh—The Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers. Isn’t that part of what they called the Fertile Crescent? All Yes, the Fertile Crescent! 6 All Why? Because the life sustaining rivers in this crescent-shaped region made it a great place for growing and living! We are now approaching the capital of ancient Babylonia... 4 7 Baby-low-knee-uh? 8 9 Baby lawns? Yup! They had babies and low knees a long time ago! All NO! That’s Babylon—the capital of ancient Babylonia! [gesture] [sound effect] 7,8 9 Oh, Babylon, on the Euphrates river! Isn’t that what I said? 10 Where are we now? [gesture] 6 10 Sumer in Southern Mesopotamia. Sorry, I was at the snack bar grabbing some hummus. What do people call this place? All Sumer! It was one of the first civilizations in 4000 BC. [gesture] 11 Sumerians had a form of writing called cuneiform. All 12 Cunieform? A writing system? [gesture] This writing... All 12 Cuneiform... was wedge shaped indentations... All 12 indent . . . what? [gesture] Indentations—notches or cut-outs. 13 14 They were wedge-shaped markings. This writing was done on clay tablets. All Cuneiform on clay tablets? 14 All Yes! By the Sumerians. 15 The Sumerians also made up a mathematical system. All 16 A mathematical what? [gesture] A way of counting based on the number 60. All The number 60! [gesture] That’s a big number! [sound effect] 17 And then came another invention…the wheel! All Ooooh…the wheel [gesture] 18 All Who invented the wheel? The Sumerians invented the wheel. [gesture] 19 Sumerians sure were great artists! Just look at those beautiful mosaics! All Mosaics? 20 Yes, they cut out thousands of colorful tiny pieces and glued them together in designs. 21 All Hey, they are made of clay! Wow! Clay Mosaic patterns! [gesture] 22 Archaeologists discovered many interesting things where Sumer used to be. All 23 All What did they find? [gesture] Mosaics, helmets and harps, jewelry, pottery, and decorated tables too! [sound effect] 24 10 Hey what time is it? I don’t know! All 1 All Time to look at our sundial! That’s right! The ancient Mesopotamians created the first clock... [sound effect] ...and the first calendar! 11 All Hey, look over there at all those steps! Whoa! [gesture] 12 13 Those look like some sort of ancient temple! What is it called? 11 A ziggurat. 13 All What??? A ziggurat. 13 2 Cool. Ziggurats were holy mountains where people could get closer to the Gods Well, time travelers, that concludes tonight’s trip of many thousand years back to... 3 (Star Wars tune) 15 Meso All Mesopotamia! [gesture] 16 All Who wouldn’t blame ya for booking today? 15 All Meso Mesopotamia! [gesture] 17 The culture sustains ya! All It’s worth what you pay! 18 Brought from modern day Iraq right here to you today! 19 For all your time travel needs [gesture] remember to call on ... All Back to the Past Tours! [gesture] [sound effect]