the tower of babel

to my nyc friends -the tower of babel IS after the flood.  like.  right after the flood (can I just say again that genesis cruises through all the good bible stories?  there is so much packed into just those first 20 chapters even!).

so noah's sons were shem, ham and japheth.
-the semites lived in the hill country?
-the hamites were hunters?  and were tasked with being slaves to shem because ham had noah's nakedness covered.
-the japhethites were sea fairing peoples?

and immediately after the bible goes through their lineage it tells the story of babel...the whole world had one language and the peoples who settled on a plain in shinar decided they would make a brick tower that would touch heaven so that they could "make a name for themselves".  the Lord confused their language and scattered them so they couldn't continue AND here's another relation from our world to the biblical world.  genesis 11:9 points out that that's why it was called "babel" because they were confused in language and "babbling".  LOL.