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Story >>   After the great flood the family of Noah and those
who came after him grew in number, until, as the years went on,
the earth began to be full of people once more. But there was
one great difference between the people who had lived before the
flood and those who lived after it. Before the flood, all the
people stayed close together, so that very many lived in one
land, and no one lived in other lands. After the flood families
began to move from one place to another, seeking for themselves
new homes. Some went one way, and some another, so that as the
number of people grew, they covered much more of the earth than
those who had lived before the flood.  Part of the people went
up to the north and built a city called Nineveh, which became
the ruling city of a great land called Assyria, whose people
were called Assyrians.  Another company went away to the west
and settled by the gre