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Southern Africa and Great Zimbabwe - Coggle Diagram
Southern Africa and Great Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe
Theories
that the cattle grazing had worn out all the grass land
The area had been farmed on so much that the soil gave out and could no longer support the population
Had economic classes where one class was better than the other and had different resources than the others did
culture
They had a very agruiculture heavy culture
Why did they leave when the area they were in was so great?
Excavations of the ruins
Excavations suggest Great Zimbabwe had multiple social classes
Huts outside the enclosure were close; inside they were not
People inside the enclosure had an elite status
Inside, there were buildings for religious ceremonies
Elites ate beef, commoners ate goats or sheep
The Shona people built the city as the center of their empire
The walls were not for defense but to impress visitors
Religion was similar to the Shona people; devotion to spirits of ancestors
By 1450, Great Zimbabwe was abandoned for unknown reasons
Theories suggest that cattle grazing and farming drained their resources
Portuguese explorers knew about the site in 1500s
Karl Mauch, a German explorer, discovered it in 1871