Also the tower of babel is just like how you explain complicated things to children. Not real, just like saying storks deliver babies to avoid explaining an awkward or unknown process.
You gotta remember that most people throughout history were dumb peasants with essentially no education. Even the finest educations were pretty basic. The finest minds would have a very limited understanding of anthropology or linguistics so they made up fantastical stories.
It was basically like an apocalypse with the vast majority of aztecs dying of disease, and lots of tribal conflict. The europeans were commonly seen like gods walking on earth during it all.
Many countries already have scaled back daily production because the price of oil had lowered. If the price goes up, they can just produce more elsewhere to level it out.
Saudi arabia doesn't necessarily have much more oil than anywhere else anymore. They are already doing large scale fracking because their natural deposits are largely depleted.
