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A Biblical Account
“It was the year 2348 B.C. that Noah spent in floating upon the waste of waters while every living thing was perishing around him, and afterwards in seeing the floods return to their beds in oceans, lakes, and rivers which they shall never again overpass.... In 2247 B.C. The sons of men banded themselves together to build the tower of Babel on the plain of Shinar, just below the hills of Armenia, where the two great rivers Euphrates and Tigris make the flats rich and fertile. For their presumption, God confounded their speech, and the nations first were divided. Ham's children got all the best regions; Nimrod, the child of his son Cush, kept Babel, built the first city, and became the first king. Canaan's sons settled themselves in that goodliest of all lands which bore his name; and Mizraim's children obtained the rich and beautiful valley of the Nile, called Egypt. All these were keen clever people, builders of cities, cultivators of the land, weavers and embroiderers, earnest after comfort and riches, and utterly forgetting, or grievously corrupting, the worship of God. Others of the race seem to have wandered further south, where the heat of the sun blackened their skins; and their strong constitution, and dull meek temperament, marked them out to all future generations as a prey to be treated like animals of burden, so as to bear to the utmost the curse of Canaan.”Charlotte Mary Younge, 1859. The Chosen People: A Compendium of Sacred and Church History for School Children, 1859. Project Gutenberg text 7chsm10.txt