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the ever dwindling glaciers changed the stress levels in the earths mantle causing an increased time of volcanoes and earth quakes and you have a period of natural catastrophe unlike any that man had ever witnessed.

Communities that survived these events, which had seen their homes swept away and their livelihoods destroyed would have talked about these times for generations to come until they finally passed into the vague storylines that we call folklore.

The Black Sea Flood
There is one area that is of particular interest as it relates to the story of Noah, which is the most famous of these stories in western culture. At the time of the ice meltdown, The Black Sea was a fresh water lake sitting between what is now Turkey and Russia, unconnected to the Mediterranean Sea to its west. The Mediterranean was however slowly rising due to the overall rise of the world's oceans and the land gap between the higher saltwater sea in the west and the relatively low-level fresh water lake to the east was diminishing fast. The Black Sea is known to be an area of ancient settlements; some of the earliest metallurgy, agriculture and wine production seem to have been active in this area. When the Mediterranean did burst through, geological evidence suggests, it did so with such force that it would have devastated thousands of square miles and the gradual rise of the Black Sea water levels have left it twice the depth today as its pre-meltdown depth. The communities dispersing from the area would have left the area with stories of what to them seem like a world flood (their world at least) and these stories would have found their way south to mix with the cultures of the people that would one day be the Babylonians and the Hebrews. The location of Noah's Mount Ararat in the Black sea vicinity and the fact that he is associated with the invention of wine making may also hint at some other connections with the black sea communities.

Further reading

Noah's Flood - William Ryan and Walter Pitman

Before the Flood Ian Wilson

Underworld (Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age) Graham Hancock

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