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Babel Articles

• Assyria

  

  from Babel Legends!

  This legend comes from Assyrian tablets of Nineveh.

• Choctaw

  

  from Babel Legends!

  This Choctaw legend is based on the real events of the tower of Babel.

• Karbi

  

  from Babel Legends!

  This legend comes from the Karbi people of Eastern India.

• Malo

  

  from Babel Legends!

  This Chinese legend is based on the real event.

• Náhuatl

  

  from Babel Legends!

  This Aztec legend is based on the real events of the flood and the tower of Babel.

• Why Do People Have Different Skin Shades?

  

  April 1, 2023 from Kids Answers Magazine

  All humans have the same basic skin color—brown. This color comes from a pigment in our skin called melanin. Skin comes in different shades from light to dark brown.

• Are There Any Remains Of The Tower Of Babel?

  Aug. 24, 2017 from The Answers Book for Kids: Volume 6

  Most researchers think they know where the foundation is located.

• How Big Was The Tower Of Babel?

  Aug. 24, 2017 from The Answers Book for Kids: Volume 6

  The Bible doesn’t tell us how big the Tower of Babel was. It is described as “a tower whose top is in the heavens.”

• How Did People Get Different Skin Colors?

  

  Aug. 24, 2017 from The Answers Book for Kids: Volume 6

  As the population split up and people left Babel by their family groups, different characteristics like the many skin shades ended up in the various groups.

• How Did People Get To America When They Spread Out?

  Aug. 24, 2017 from The Answers Book for Kids: Volume 6

  As people spread out from Babel, they could easily have made it to Europe, Asia, and Africa. These continents are all connected. But North and South America and Australia are not connected.

• How Long Did It Take To Build The Tower Of Babel?

  Aug. 24, 2017 from The Answers Book for Kids: Volume 6

  . . . when people are dedicated to doing something and are working toward the same goal, they can do things very quickly.

• How Many Languages Came From Babel?

  Aug. 24, 2017 from The Answers Book for Kids: Volume 6

  There were at least 78 families that came out of Babel with new languages because Genesis 10 gives a listing of most of these families.

• How Many People Did It Take To Build The Tower Of Babel?

  Aug. 24, 2017 from The Answers Book for Kids: Volume 6

  These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood. (Genesis 10:32)

• Is The Tower Of Babel Still There?

  Aug. 24, 2017 from The Answers Book for Kids: Volume 6

  If it were, it would be over 4,200 years old. There are not too many things that can last that long.

• Was Anything Inside The Tower Of Babel?

  Aug. 24, 2017 from The Answers Book for Kids: Volume 6

  As far as we know, there was nothing inside the tower. It makes more sense that it would have been solid bricks inside.

• What Time Period Was The Tower Of Babel Built In?

  Aug. 24, 2017 from The Answers Book for Kids: Volume 6

  The Tower of Babel incident occurred around 4,200 years ago — about 100 years after the Flood but before Abraham was born.

• Where Do The English Come From?

  Aug. 24, 2017 from The Answers Book for Kids: Volume 6

  Most of the English came from Germanic tribes of the northern part of mainland Europe, namely the Angles and Saxons.

• Where Do The Japanese Come From?

  Aug. 24, 2017 from The Answers Book for Kids: Volume 6

  Many groups of people are actually descendants of more than one ancestor. This happened with a number of peoples, including the Japanese.

• Why Was Babel Made?

  Aug. 24, 2017 from The Answers Book for Kids: Volume 6

  The tower and city that the people built at Babel were made because they were disobeying what God had told them to do.

• Would We Still Have One Language If People Scattered?

  Aug. 24, 2017 from The Answers Book for Kids: Volume 6

  Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth.

• Where Was The Tower Of Babel Built?

  Aug. 21, 2017 from The Answers Book for Kids: Volume 6

  And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

• Kids Feedback: What Is the Origin of Language?

  April 28, 2011

  Is there a “kid friendly” answer to the origin of language?

• Where Do The Chinese Come From?

  April 29, 2010 from The Answers Book for Kids: Volume 6

  The Chinese are descendants of these original Sinites and most call themselves “Han,” from Ham, one of Noah’s three sons.