The parting of the ways

The flooding did terrible damage to the development of mankind at this point, the vast majority of people died as many of them lived not far from coastal areas and of course when the waves came they stood no chance of escape. Only those people on higher ground managed to survive and as the population began to climb back up the people went there separate ways, forgot their shared histories and saw each other no longer as part of one whole but as lots of little tribes and groups, developing their own meanings for the world around them and things became, Lost in Translation, to the point that they may as well have been different species.