not everyone drowned, the later offspring of the survivers spread outEr...where did the ancient stories come from, if everyone drowned?
MANY years passed. Noahs sons had lots of children. And their children grew up and had more children. Soon there were many people on the earth.
All the people at that time spoke one language.
God wanted the people to move out and live all over the earth. But the people said: Come on! Lets build a city and a tower so high that its top will reach into the heavens. Then we will be famous! The people wanted honor for themselves, not for God.
So God made the people stop building the tower. Do you know how he did it? By suddenly causing people to speak different languages, instead of just one. No longer did the builders understand one another. This is why their city came to be called Ba´bel, or Babylon, meaning "Confusion."
The people now began to move away from Ba´bel. Groups of persons who spoke the same language went to live together in other parts of the earth. and they took the flood story with them , and now we have stories all over the world