The tower of babel activity (book)

The story of the Tower of Babel

"And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." (Genesis 11:5-6)

1. What does the biblical story of the tower of babel shows?

2. What does historical evidence tells us of this biblical event?

3. Wich is the relationship between genes and languaje?

4. Why languaje constantly changes?

ANSWERS:

 1. It shows how languaje is created, showed human ambition and god punished them because he hated that ambition from humans part.

2. Humans started to spread, so the humans and the languaje

3. Genes are transmitted by blood, languaje is transmitted by culture and people around

4. New generations change it socially, when they speak with friends and equals (partners, friends)