Zimbabwe+History

=__All About Zimbabwe__=

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[|www.theodora.com] ===**Zimbabwe was founded by the late 1400's by a group called the Rozwi. The word Zimbabwe or Changamire comes from a language called Shona. Zimbabwe means house of stone which also implies to chief's graves. Zimbabwe was found by a group of people called the Rozwi and took over Zimbabwe. Rozwi built most of the structures that are found in Zimbabwe.**===

===**The empire was peaceful until the Nguni people from the South defeated Zimbabwe in the 1830s. The founder is Changamir Son of Matopo ruler of the Mbire or Monomotapa empire. Changamir Son of Matope gained independence and found a kingdom that he called the Rozwi. Famous Zimbabwe birds - eagle-type perched on tall pillars constructed for the dead chiefs. Some people thought the ruins were built in the time of King Solomon or later in the time of the Arab slaves.**===

===**The stones city was doubted to be of African Culture. Archeologists found many artifacts from the past Zimbabwe like gold objects, copper-wire ornaments, iron tools and weapons. Besides those they also found Ming celadon, [|Nanking] porcelain, Persian ware, Arab glass and many imported glass beads. Changamire's briefly [|usurping] ruler of the Karanga state is removed and put into a seperate policy; its history to c. 1680. The Changamire state absorbs the Torwa state in c.1680. The last effective ruler flees and was captured while the British South Afrca Company rules (till 1923), there ruling linage continues to claim the royal style. Afrcan king, Tanganyika led his people to miggration in the 1815 - 1848. There have been many civilisations in Zimbabwe; The civilasitions are shown on stone structures at Khami, Great Zimbabwe and Dhlo-Dhlo.**===

===The Mwene Mutapa ( or Monomatapas ) were the first major civilisation to become established. By the mid 1440's, the king Mutota's empire included almost all of the Rhodesian plateu and extensive parts of what is now Mozambique. The wealth of this empire was based on small - scale industries, for example: iron smelting, textiles gold and coper along with agriculture. the regular inhabitats of the empire's trading towns were the Arab and Swahili merchants whose trade was conducted. In the early 16th centuy the portugese arrived and the destroyed this trade and started a eries of wars and weakened the empire. Several Shona states came together to form the Rozwi empire which covered more than half of the present Zimbabwe.Tusks in Zimbabwe is makes good trading for ivory. The plateau between between the rivers Zambesi and limpopo, in southeast Africa gives rich opportunities for human settlement. Great Zimbabwe was generally divided into three main areas: the Hill Complex, the Great Enclosure and the Valley Ruins.===

__**A Few Pictures on the Great Zimbabwe** Ruin__
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=__Sources__=
 * [|www.britannica.com/blackhistory/article-9078375#TOP]
 * [|www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar105990]
 * [|www.worldstatesmen.org/Zimbabwe_native.html]
 * [|www.sahistory.org.za/pages/classroom/pages/projects/grade6/lesson1/unit2.htm]

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