Click the map to see an animated version of the migration. To stop the animation, left click the image again.

Credits: Map animation javascript by Phenom Leonidas.

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People must evacuate, and do so without harvesting their crops. As the level of salt rises in the water, dying fish float to the top. The lands these people flee through will not have enough food to help such a huge emigrant population. There will be starvation, theft, and war. These people will take their technology and eventually found such great and widespread civilizations as the Indo-Europeans, Egyptians and Sumerians.

Who will you portray? A traveler who has returned to find everything he owned underwater, including his ancestor's graves? A king who must move his people to a new land? A king who must protect his land from these people? A former tradesman, trying to find or steal enough food for his family to live? A farmer trying to protect his crops from that former tradesman. The strife will be unprecedented.

There are strong arguments that this was the flood in the Biblical story of Noah, as well as that in the story of Gilgamesh. If you wish to take part in the role-play of either of these stories, you've found the right place.