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    • Great Zimbabwe reflect the culture of the Shona peoples, a Bantu speaking ethnic
      group
    • Earliest habitation of the site was around 400 AD. The site consists of a large main stone enclosure and many other structures built in and around it. Building probably occurred in three phases. Zimbabwe was occupied from the 13th to the 15th centuries by ancestors of the Shona.
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  • Great Zimbabwe

    • Located in the south central African nation of Zimbabwe are the ruins of
      monuments and cities built of stone. These ruins extend a radius of 100 to 200
      miles, a diameter almost as great as the entire nation of France. Believed to
      have been built by southern Africans about 600-1,000 years ago, they are
      evidence of a thriving culture in the heart of Africa. Up until recent years,
      the ruins were believed by Western historians to be the remains of a "mysterious
      white race" in the heart of Africa

  • Great Zimbabwe (11th–15th century) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    • The ruins of this complex of massive stone walls undulate across almost 1,800
      acres of present-day southeastern Zimbabwe. Begun during the eleventh century
      A.D. by Bantu-speaking
      ancestors of the Shona, Great Zimbabwe was constructed and expanded for more
      than 300 years in a local style that eschewed rectilinearity for flowing curves.
      Neither the first nor the last of some 300 similar complexes located on the
      Zimbabwean plateau, Great Zimbabwe is set apart by the terrific scale of its
      structure. Its most formidable edifice, commonly referred to as the Great
      Enclosure, has walls as high as 36 feet extending approximately 820 feet, making
      it the largest ancient structure south of the Sahara Desert
    • These walls were constructed from granite blocks gathered from the exposed rock
      of the surrounding hills. Since this rock naturally splits into even slabs and
      can be broken into portable sizes, it provided a convenient and readily
      available building resource. All of Great Zimbabwe's walls were fitted without
      the use of mortar by laying stones one on top of the other, each layer slightly
      more recessed than the last to produce a stabilizing inward slope. Early
      examples were coarsely fitted using rough blocks and incorporated features of
      the landscape such as boulders into the walls. Over the years the technique was
      refined, and later walls were fitted together closely and evenly over long,
      serpentine courses to produce remarkably finished surfaces.
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  • History of ZIMBABWE




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      Growth of the Rhodesias


          
      A settlers' colony


          
      Federation


          
      Before and after UDI


          
      Republic of Zimbabwe


          
      2008 elections







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      Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe: 11th - 15th c. AD








      The plateau between the rivers Zambezi and Limpopo
    • The earliest important trading centre is at Mapungubwe, on the bank of the Limpopo. The settlement is established by a cattle-herding people, whose increasing prosperity leads to the emergence of a sophisticated court and ruling elite.
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  • Riddle of Great Zimbabwe

    • The ruins cover nearly 1,800 acres and can be divided into three distinct architectural groupings known as the Hill Complex, the Valley Complex, and the Great Enclosure
    • Great Zimbabwe may have had as many as 18,000 inhabitants.

  • History and People | Zimbabwe | African Safari Travel | Go 2 Africa | Africa Travel & Safaris

    • It finally came to an end following upheavals in South Africa's Transvaal and Natal regions - the mfecane (scattering) caused by Zulu chief Shaka's aggressive militarism.

  • Great Zimbabwe --  Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition

    • The word zimbabwe, the country's namesake, is a Shona (Bantu) word meaning “stone houses.”
    • The Hill Complex, which was formerly called the Acropolis, is believed to have been the spiritual and religious centre of the city. It sits on a steep-sided hill that rises 262 feet (80
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  • EBSCOhost: Great Zimbabwe

    • Below the Hill Complex sits the most stunning of Great Zimbabwe's structures, the Great Enclosure, or Elliptical Building. Called Imbahuru, meaning "the house of the great woman" or "the great house,"

  • Kingdom of Mutapa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    • According to oral tradition, the first "mwene" was a warrior prince named Nyatsimba Mutota from a southern Shona kingdom sent to find new sources of salt in the north.[2] Prince Mutota found his salt among the Tavara, a Shona subdivision, who were prominent elephant hunters. They were conquered,[3] a capital was established 350km north of Great Zimbabwe at Mount Fura by the Zambezi.
    • Mutota's successor, Matope, extended this new kingdom into a great empire encompassing most of the lands between Tavara and the Indian Ocean.[3] The Mwenemutapa became very wealthy by exploiting copper from Chidzurgwe and ivory from the middle Zambezi. This expansion weakened the Torwa kingdom, the southern Shona state from which Mutota and his dynasty originated.[3] Mwenemutapa Matope's armies overran the kingdom of the Manyika as well as the coastal kingdoms of Kiteve and Madanda.[3] By the time the Portuguese arrived on the coast of Mozambique, the Mutapa Kingdom was the premier Shona state in the region.[3]

  • Zimbabwe: Great Zimbabwe

    • that is known as Zimbabwe today was ruled under the Mutapa Empire... known as Mwene Mutapa, Monomotapa or the Empire of Great Zimbabwe
    • However, Portuguese settlers destroyed the trade and began a series of wars which left the empire near collapse in the early 17th century. In 1834, the Matabele people arrived while fleeing from the Zulu leader Shaka, making the area their new empire, Matabeleland.
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