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"Tower of Babel":

This card is named after the Biblical Tower of Babel, mentioned in Genesis 11. The tower was built by the settlers of Shinar (an old name for Babylon) which they intended to reach Heaven. For their audacity and hubris, God cursed them so that every worker spoke a different language, so they could not communicate with each other and the tower collapsed.
- One historical site believed to have been the "real" Tower of Babel is Etemenanki, a ziggurat temple in Babylonia whose name meant "temple of the foundation of heaven and earth".

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-* This card is named after the Tower of Babel, which in the Biblical book of Genesis was a tower built in Babylon as an attempt to reach Heaven. However, God was upset by this, and so caused the tower to collapse, then divided up the people and spread them throughout the world, thus causing different languages and cultures in the process.
+* This card is named after the Biblical [[wikipedia:Tower of Babel|Tower of Babel]], mentioned in Genesis 11. The tower was built by the settlers of Shinar (an old name for Babylon) which they intended to reach Heaven. For their audacity and hubris, God cursed them so that every worker spoke a different language, so they could not communicate with each other and the tower collapsed.
+** One historical site believed to have been the "real" Tower of Babel is [[wikipedia:Etemenanki|Etemenanki]], a ziggurat temple in Babylonia whose name meant "temple of the foundation of heaven and earth".
-* Others believe that the Tower of Babel may have been a step pyramid with a temple to the Babylonian god Moloch at the top.