Was it by mere chance that after the flood one people settled in Jaffeth (China) another in Vindyu (India) and

Question

Was it by mere chance that after the flood one people settled in Jaffeth (China), another in Vindyu (India) and another in Arabinya (Arabia)?

Answer 1

Shouldn't this question be in mythology? It certainly does not belong in the history section.

Answer 2

Even without consideration of divine intervention, such decisions are rarely chance. They are driven decisions of opportunity. Something made a people want to move from where they were--humans are notoriously territorial. It could be population pressures, it could be climate changes (yes, it did happen to the pre-industrialized world, as hard as that may seem for some), it could be political/social pressures. To the British colonists in America, the land behind their mountains was wilder and more distant than where they were, an ironic thought since they crossed a wild ocean from a long-tamed continent in order to build a home in the new world. Then the land west of the Mississippi river was often termed "the great American desert", even though the areas we commonly call desert today start about half-way west of there. The land was deserted, comparatively-speaking. That is how the europeans could shoe-horn themselves into most of what is the United States and Canada (the social mechanics in Latin America were of a slightly different dynamic). Too many colonists and developers? Then move the natives into smaller and more distant reservations.

All of these were deliberate decisions. People liking a land. People establishing themselves in a land. People dominating a land. The forces that moved them could be as simple as "they don't like me here but are stronger than me, so I'll go somewhere else" or "I've heard that some place over there is gorgeous--and virtually empty--so let's move."

Answer 3

To all the people who assume that just because something is in the Bible means it isn't true... and answered that the flood is a fable... EVERY single culture throughout history has a "great flood" story (on every continent), so don't give me that it didn't happen! It's not just documented in the Bible, for goodness sake. See this link: http://www.nwcreation.net/noahlegends.html

To answer your question... well, it would probably have something to do with the distribution of languages as well which happened after the flood at Babel. Only family groups could communicate and so it follows that family groups travelled together to various parts of the world, where they settled.

Answer 4

Fairytales!

Answer 5

Please tell me you are not referring to that fable about Noah's ark!

Flood? I think not.