The ancient Babylonian city of Ur became a chief city under Urgur.
He was not only a conqueror but also a city builder.

Before and after the great Flood, no doubt, animals multiplied quickly (exponentially) and after some years herds, including wooly mammoths, bison, elk and deer, could be seen and people who had spread out throughout the world from Armenia, began to hunt, instead of grow plant food or else they did both.

Joseph having arrived in Egypt during 12th Dynasty
times, a few years after his death and that of his king, the new pharaoh put the Hebrews into slavery.