Biblically, Adam & Eve’s Cain
established a city-state when he deliberately forsook YHVH and "began
a condition of wandering." Historic parallels
are again noticeable in Genesis 10-11, with names of well-known
post-Flood city-states listed. A rebellion at Babylon resulted
in building the first ziggurat or temple-tower, a (post-Flood) reestablished
anti-YHVH religion.