Does one really have to look beyond the Tower of Babel to figure out how this ends?
A civilisation's "Tower of Babel" crisis always starts when the definition of "Is" is argued over....confusion begins with the distorions of previously consensually agreed upon concepts ( as described in the mother tongue first). The people scatter and languages change later over time.
The tower of Babel story was a description as to what happens in all civilisations when they begin to die!
Remeber what the story also stated....that God himself went down and confused the languages. To destroy the unity of a nation, you first factionalize its people and bring on disagreements as to the interpretations of that nation's unifying concepts and laws!
So God still raises up and tears down kingdoms, as the Bible says he does!