Since the logical Fantasy Counterpart Culture for Air Nomad nonbenders are Flying Mongols (Tibetian Buddhism spread like wildfire through the Mongolians after they were driven out of China by the Ming Dynasty) or mounted archers of some sort, it must follow that they must have tried for world domination at least once. Knowing the Mongol's historical attempt at it, they would have been very successful, considering their obvious advantages (Ba Sing Se? No match for those Sky-Bison mounted raiders with composite bows and gliders). However, it would have been reasonably more interesting to have the Fire Nation, with it's Industrial-level technology; be the first of the four peoples to try to take over the world. There is also the elemental symbolism: Air has traditionally been seen as one of t