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Southern Africa and Great Zimbabwe - Coggle Diagram
Southern Africa and Great Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe grew an empire built on the gold trade
Zimbabwe well suited for farming and cattle raising, and was near important trade route
Became the economic, political, and religious center of an empire
Great Enclosure: Complex of walled enclosures made of mud or stone and were homes of the elite social class
Had multiple social economic classes
Social systems: They had multiple social classes and the most elite lived in the huts outside of the city
Why did the elite class want to live in the huts outside of the city?
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/364/
Excavations of the ruins
Their society includes multiple social classes
The huts
Far apart
Some huts were for special purposes, such as religious ceremonies
These huts were inside the walls and in a central location
https://reliefweb.int/report/zimbabwe/high-and-dry-flood-hit-zimbabweans-look-back-stilt-homes#:~:text=Built%20on%20poles%20made%20from,waterproof%20and%20windproof%2C%20said%20Mudenda
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Cattle bones were found on the inside of these walls
We took that as the elite of the community were probably the only ones who ate beed
Commoners probably would've eaten sheep
The people of Zimbabwe practiced a traditional religion, similar to the Shona religion today
https://www.marintheatre.org/productions/the-convert/convert-shona-culture#:~:text=Religion%3A%20The%20Shona%20religion%20is,between%20Mwari%20and%20the%20people
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Very focused on devotion to spirits of ancestors'
They believe their ancestors protected and guide them
Religion
1450
Zimbabwe was abandoned
No one knows for sure what happened
Farming had worn out the soil, and people had used up the salt and timber
Natural recourses: they ran out of them, so they couldn't supply food for their big community
Why doesn't any one know what happened?