Tower of Babel

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/tower-of-babel

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the narrative location?Shinar, Mesopotamia
2. What is the biblical source?Book of Genesis, Chapter 11
3. What happened at the Tower of Babel?People tried to build a very tall tower to reach the heavens. God confused their speech so they could not finish the tower and had to stop.
4. Why did God confuse the people's language?God wanted to stop them from building the tower and to spread them across the earth, so their unity and power would not become too strong.

Origin Myth: A traditional story explaining the beginnings of the world, humanity, or a particular phenomenon.
Ziggurat: A massive, stepped temple tower common in ancient Mesopotamian cities, believed to connect earth and heaven.
Linguistic Diversity: The existence of a variety of languages spoken by people around the world.
Mesopotamia: An ancient region located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, often called the 'cradle of civilization'.