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Eastern Cities & Southern Empires - Coggle Diagram
Eastern Cities & Southern Empires
Great Zimbabwae
In southeastern Africa, the Shona people established a city which grew into an empire built on the gold trade.
When the Shona established a city, where had they lived previously?
Zimbabwe has great advantages within living
Agricultural:
The area was well suited to farming and cattle raising.
Sometime after 1000, Great Zimbabwe
gained control of these trade routes.
Its leaders taxed the traders who
traveled these routes.
Economic:
The city stood near an important trade route linking the goldfields with the coastal trading city of Sofala.
Great Zimbabwe comes from its
impressive ruins
They include:
A complex of walled enclosures on a large hill
A group of enclosures south of the hill, called the Great Enclosure
Some ruins in the valley between.
evacuations of the ruins
huts outside the cities enclosure were very close together
inside the enclosure the huts were not close together
living inside enclosures enjoyed elite status
some huts seemed to have special purposes
people inside the enclosure may have eaten beef, while poeple outside enclosure ate sheep or goat
evacuations suggest that there was multiple economic and social classes
Zimbabwe abandoned
cattle grazing may have worn out the grasslands
farming had worn out the soil
people had used up the salt and timber
could no longer hold such a large population
where did they go after they abandoned it?