The Tower of Babel - the Beginning of these Systems.

The story of Babylon is monumental, and of great historical significance.

But it, considering the circumstances of the world today, has been demoted
to probably one of the most obscure and insignificant events of our ancient
history. This important story is rarely mentioned in modern history books -
almost intentionally forgotten.

Also, when one hears the name Nimrod many tend to think of some
clumsy oaf; one of little intelligence. In actuality, the Nimrod of old was a
mighty leader, the founder of the first great empire of post-flood
civilization - the kingdom of Babylon.[1]

The flood of Noah devastated the world Noah once lived in. After the
waters receded, and Noah and his family left the Ark, God commanded the
survivors to "spread out, and fill the earth" (Genesis 9:7 KJV).
Unfortunately, the people of the day chose not to obey God. Nearly two
hundred years after the flood, the descendants of Noah began to multiply
in great numbers. Noah's close descendants became the patriarchs of a
great number of families who, eventually, had coalesced into nations. This
disbursement would set the stage for the eventual Babylonian Empire, and
Babylonian Religion(s).

Noah's grandson Cush was one of these early patriarchs; the one who
became a leader of many. He did not want to follow God's commandment
of "fill the earth," but strove for the opposite - he wanted to bring all of the
people together. He began to unite everyone into one huge nation; thus
beginning the unification movement - all centered at the Tower of
Babel.[2]

The Bible gives us little information about Cush, Nimrod, and the Tower
itself. As we read in Genesis 10:8, Cush was the father of Nimrod - and
that's about all. Even though the Bible doesn't give us much more about
their individual lives, we do learn from other ancient texts that Cush and
Nimrod would become legendary, throughout the secular/pagan world.[3]

The Bible does, however, tell us about the beginning of this apostasy at the
Tower of Babel - the major rebellion against God, and His commandments:

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech... they
found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.... And they
said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach
unto heaven; and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad
upon the face of the whole earth... - Gen. 11:1-4 (KJV)