The Fertile Valleys

S1 E4: The inhabitants of a peaceful neolithic villlage have just discovered how to cultivate the soil. But the harvested grain is coveted by pillagers, and the villagers are obliged to protect themselves by erecting stockades. While our little settlement goes about its humdrum daily routine, the Middle East has already become the seat of highly evolved civilizations: Jarmo in Irak, Jericho in Palestine, Ban-Chiang in Thailand, Chatal-Hayouk in Turkey. Maestro has just returned from the latter after an interminable voyage and is recounting its marvels to the inhabitants of his little village perched on the high plateau of Iran. The crowd, however, makes a laughing stock of him, and the old Master, vexed, decides to set off on a new adventure. This time, his two youthful disciples, Peter Junior and Jumbo Junior, are to accompany him ...