Mount Ararat
When Noah descended from the mountain where the Ark landed they were at first afraid to move to the low land for fear of another flood. According to Josephus (the Jewish history who was alive in 70 A.D. when the temple was destroyed by Romans), in slightly embellished terms, God told them to spread abroad and establish colonies but they refused. Nimrod, the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah, decided he could out do God and any future floods by building a huge tower that they could rally upon if indeed the water ever flooded the lowlands again.
Of Nimrod, Josephus wrote, "He also changed the government into tyranny, -seeing no other way to turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence upon his power".
The bible tells us how this worked out for the future languages of the world, in the destruction of the Tower of Babel.
