The Great Dumbing

Was an era which lasted throughout the first millennium after the Flood. During this time the foundations of Ancient civilization began to break down causing the world to enter a dark age. Learning became a thing of the past and almost all of the Ancients technologies were destroyed by the intense power of the sun, which beat down on the worlds surface mercilessly. The Ancient cities that were spared from the rising seas began to fall into ruins after the global population went into rapid decline due to the mass famines and plagues that ravaged the populations that survived the Flood.

The survivors abandoned their once comfortable lifestyles and focused all their resources on survival. Ancient nations like the United States immediately ceased to exist and were wiped off the map during the chaos. The absence of any sort authority led most to join bands of survivors which would eventually transform into primitive tribes. After the complete breakdown of communications, the ancient languages like Anglish and Spanish began to splinter into hundreds of regional languages, causing the peoples of Meruka to lose their old sense of identity under the United States.