The Kingdom of Zimbabwe (1220–1450) was a kingdom located in the territory of modern-day Zimbabwe. It is famous for its capital, Great Zimbabwe, the largest stone structure in southern Africa until recent times.
Name
Zimbabwe is the modern name issued to the most prominent pre-colonial civilization in southern Africa. The name is derived from one of two possible terms: the Shona (dzimba dza mabwe or "great stone houses") or Kalanga (Nzi we mabwe or "Homestead of Stone").
Origin
The creators of the Zimbabwe kingdom immigrated to the Zimbabwe plateau from the Kingdom of Mapungubwe in southern Africa in the early 11th century.
Culture and expansion
The rulers of Zimbabwe brought artistic and stonemasonry traditions from Mapungubwe. The construction of elaborate stone buildings and walls reached its apex in the kingdom. The institution of mambo was also used at Zimbabwe, along with an increasingly rigid three-tiered class structure. The kingdom taxed other rulers throughout the region. The kingdom was composed of over 150 tributaries headquartered in their own minor zimbabwes. They established rule over a wider area than the Mapungubwe, the Butua or the Mutapa.
Great Zimbabwe is a ruined city in the south-eastern hills of Zimbabwe near Lake Mutirikwe and the town of Masvingo. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe during the country's Late Iron Age. Construction on the monument by ancestors of the Shona people began in the 11th century and continued until the 15th century, spanning an area of 722 hectares (1,780 acres) which, at its peak, could have housed up to 18,000 people. It is recognised as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Great Zimbabwe served as a royal palace for the Zimbabwean monarch and would have been used as the seat of political power. One of its most prominent features were the walls, some of which were over five metres high and which were constructed without mortar. Eventually the city was abandoned and fell into ruin.
The earliest known written mention of the ruins was in 1531 by Vicente Pegado, captain of the Portuguese garrison of Sofala, who recorded it as Symbaoe. The first European visit may have been made by the Portuguese traveler António Fernandes in 1513-1515, who crossed twice and reported in detail the region of present-day Zimbabwe (including the Shona kingdoms) and also fortified centers in stone without mortar. However, passing en route a few miles north and about 35 miles south of the site, he did not make a reference to the Great Zimbabwe riddle.
In this video i give a brief history about the Great Zimbabwe empire which eventually gave rise to the Mutapa State. The Great Zimbabwe is where the nation of Zimbabwe gets it's name and identity, it is the place where the Zimbabwe birds were discovered before they were looted to a different museums across the world, even Cecil John Rhodes ended up with one.
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A History of Great Zimbabwe: The Rise and Fall
Great Zimbabwe. A great example of Africa's engineering and architectural abilities. With soaring granite walls seven times taller than the average person, narrow corridors, and hundreds of Daga homes stretched across the plains, the city was once the capital of a grand medieval kingdom that controlled the gold trade from China to Persia.
So, why have most people never heard of it? Why have the ruins remained almost as elusive to modern researchers as they had to scholars more than 100 years ago? How could such a large and powerful civilization leave such vague and minuscule clues of its history?
The answers range from colonial destruction to lack of written records to contemporary economic issues in the country that took its name from the grand ancient city. So, what do we know about Gr...
published: 29 Sep 2021
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History Summarized: Great Zimbabwe
The existence of Great Zimbabwe implies, somewhere, the existence of Evil Zimbabwe. Evil Zimbabwe uses way too much mortar in their stone architecture, and they didn't play a major role in the medieval world's largest trade network either. This is why we at OSP prefer Great Zimbabwe, they played the Trade game like a champ and didn't need any mortar.
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Great Courses Lectures: "Great Zimbabwe and the Cities of the South" from "The African Experience: From Lucy to Mandela" by Kenneth P Vickery, and "Civilizations of Sub-Saharan Africa in 1215" from "Years that Changed History: 1215" by Dorsey Armstrong
Textual sources: National Geographic "Great Zimbabwe" https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-zimbabwe, Britannica "Great Zimbabwe" https://www.britan...
published: 17 Feb 2023
The Great Zimbabwe Empire | Visiting Ancient African Royal Palaces
The Great Zimbabwe Empire was one the great black empires to exist in ancient times. In this video, I visit the ancient ruins of this empire which consists of the King’s palace, the Queen’s palace, and smaller structures of royal family member’s houses. What amazed me about this site is that the most impressive building of this ancient city was the Queen’s palace. This was to show how honored she was in society. This is black history at its finest. This is one of many great African kingdoms that was never taught to us in school.
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0:48 - Overview of Great Zimbabwe Empire
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published: 25 Nov 2020
Who built Great Zimbabwe? And why? - Breeanna Elliott
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Stretched across a tree-peppered expanse in Southern Africa lies the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, a medieval stone city of astounding wealth. Located in the present-day country of Zimbabwe, it’s the site of the second largest settlement ruins in Africa. But its history is controversial, defined by decades of dispute about who built it and why. Breeanna Elliott explores the mystery of Great Zimbabwe.
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In this video i give a brief history about the Great Zimbabwe empire which eventually gave rise to the Mutapa State. The Great Zimbabwe is where the nation of Z...
In this video i give a brief history about the Great Zimbabwe empire which eventually gave rise to the Mutapa State. The Great Zimbabwe is where the nation of Zimbabwe gets it's name and identity, it is the place where the Zimbabwe birds were discovered before they were looted to a different museums across the world, even Cecil John Rhodes ended up with one.
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In this video i give a brief history about the Great Zimbabwe empire which eventually gave rise to the Mutapa State. The Great Zimbabwe is where the nation of Zimbabwe gets it's name and identity, it is the place where the Zimbabwe birds were discovered before they were looted to a different museums across the world, even Cecil John Rhodes ended up with one.
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Great Zimbabwe. A great example of Africa's engineering and architectural abilities. With soaring granite walls seven times taller than the average person, narr...
Great Zimbabwe. A great example of Africa's engineering and architectural abilities. With soaring granite walls seven times taller than the average person, narrow corridors, and hundreds of Daga homes stretched across the plains, the city was once the capital of a grand medieval kingdom that controlled the gold trade from China to Persia.
So, why have most people never heard of it? Why have the ruins remained almost as elusive to modern researchers as they had to scholars more than 100 years ago? How could such a large and powerful civilization leave such vague and minuscule clues of its history?
The answers range from colonial destruction to lack of written records to contemporary economic issues in the country that took its name from the grand ancient city. So, what do we know about Great Zimbabwe, and will we ever gain access to its lost secrets?
Before diving headfirst into these questions, let's examine Great Zimbabwe: what makes the site so impressive, and what do we know about the people who lived there? #HistoryVille #GreatZimbabwe
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Great Zimbabwe. A great example of Africa's engineering and architectural abilities. With soaring granite walls seven times taller than the average person, narrow corridors, and hundreds of Daga homes stretched across the plains, the city was once the capital of a grand medieval kingdom that controlled the gold trade from China to Persia.
So, why have most people never heard of it? Why have the ruins remained almost as elusive to modern researchers as they had to scholars more than 100 years ago? How could such a large and powerful civilization leave such vague and minuscule clues of its history?
The answers range from colonial destruction to lack of written records to contemporary economic issues in the country that took its name from the grand ancient city. So, what do we know about Great Zimbabwe, and will we ever gain access to its lost secrets?
Before diving headfirst into these questions, let's examine Great Zimbabwe: what makes the site so impressive, and what do we know about the people who lived there? #HistoryVille #GreatZimbabwe
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The existence of Great Zimbabwe implies, somewhere, the existence of Evil Zimbabwe. Evil Zimbabwe uses way too much mortar in their stone architecture, and they...
The existence of Great Zimbabwe implies, somewhere, the existence of Evil Zimbabwe. Evil Zimbabwe uses way too much mortar in their stone architecture, and they didn't play a major role in the medieval world's largest trade network either. This is why we at OSP prefer Great Zimbabwe, they played the Trade game like a champ and didn't need any mortar.
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Great Courses Lectures: "Great Zimbabwe and the Cities of the South" from "The African Experience: From Lucy to Mandela" by Kenneth P Vickery, and "Civilizations of Sub-Saharan Africa in 1215" from "Years that Changed History: 1215" by Dorsey Armstrong
Textual sources: National Geographic "Great Zimbabwe" https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-zimbabwe, Britannica "Great Zimbabwe" https://www.britannica.com/place/Great-Zimbabwe, World History Encyclopedia "Great Zimbabwe" by Mark Cartwright https://www.worldhistory.org/Great_Zimbabwe/
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The Great Zimbabwe Empire was one the great black empires to exist in ancient times. In this video, I visit the ancient ruins of this empire which consists of ...
The Great Zimbabwe Empire was one the great black empires to exist in ancient times. In this video, I visit the ancient ruins of this empire which consists of the King’s palace, the Queen’s palace, and smaller structures of royal family member’s houses. What amazed me about this site is that the most impressive building of this ancient city was the Queen’s palace. This was to show how honored she was in society. This is black history at its finest. This is one of many great African kingdoms that was never taught to us in school.
Please make sure to turn on the captions/subtitles if you're struggling to understand one of our accents.
0:00 - Intro
0:48 - Overview of Great Zimbabwe Empire
2:23 - Meeting the tour guides
3:50 - Map of Great Zimbabwe Ruins
4:23 - Kingdom of Mapungubwe & the Origins of Great Zimbabwe
5:47 - Ancient Path leading up to the King's Palace
6:56 - The King's 200 wives and 2,000 children
7:45 - The Queen's Palace measurements – Quick view of the The Great Enclosure
9:05 - Path
10:10 – Great Zimbabwe was heavily fortified and hard to invade
11:17 - Overlooking the landscape
11:45 - The King's Palace at Great Zimbabwe
13:33 - The Kings Palace's were burned after the death of each king
14:57 - Ancient kitchen
15:21 - Europeans destroyed the palace looking for gold
15:50 - Soap Stone Carved Birds & Ancient Artifacts
17:21 - Ancient religions of Africa & Great Zimbabwe
18:10 - Carved Stones and comparing it to Macchu Picchu
19:09 - The Valley Complex and where the King's wives lived
20:09 - The Queen's Palace; The Great Enclosure
22:13 - Colonization government hiding evidence that africans built Great Zimbabwe
23:28 - The conical Tower
24:13 - Why the Great Zimbabwe Empire collapsed
26:01 - The legacy of Great Zimbabwe
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The Great Zimbabwe Empire was one the great black empires to exist in ancient times. In this video, I visit the ancient ruins of this empire which consists of the King’s palace, the Queen’s palace, and smaller structures of royal family member’s houses. What amazed me about this site is that the most impressive building of this ancient city was the Queen’s palace. This was to show how honored she was in society. This is black history at its finest. This is one of many great African kingdoms that was never taught to us in school.
Please make sure to turn on the captions/subtitles if you're struggling to understand one of our accents.
0:00 - Intro
0:48 - Overview of Great Zimbabwe Empire
2:23 - Meeting the tour guides
3:50 - Map of Great Zimbabwe Ruins
4:23 - Kingdom of Mapungubwe & the Origins of Great Zimbabwe
5:47 - Ancient Path leading up to the King's Palace
6:56 - The King's 200 wives and 2,000 children
7:45 - The Queen's Palace measurements – Quick view of the The Great Enclosure
9:05 - Path
10:10 – Great Zimbabwe was heavily fortified and hard to invade
11:17 - Overlooking the landscape
11:45 - The King's Palace at Great Zimbabwe
13:33 - The Kings Palace's were burned after the death of each king
14:57 - Ancient kitchen
15:21 - Europeans destroyed the palace looking for gold
15:50 - Soap Stone Carved Birds & Ancient Artifacts
17:21 - Ancient religions of Africa & Great Zimbabwe
18:10 - Carved Stones and comparing it to Macchu Picchu
19:09 - The Valley Complex and where the King's wives lived
20:09 - The Queen's Palace; The Great Enclosure
22:13 - Colonization government hiding evidence that africans built Great Zimbabwe
23:28 - The conical Tower
24:13 - Why the Great Zimbabwe Empire collapsed
26:01 - The legacy of Great Zimbabwe
27:17 - End of tour and final thoughts
29:36 - Outro
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Stretched across a tree-peppered expanse in Southern Africa lies the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, a medieval stone city of astounding wealth. Located in the present-day country of Zimbabwe, it’s the site of the second largest settlement ruins in Africa. But its history is controversial, defined by decades of dispute about who built it and why. Breeanna Elliott explores the mystery of Great Zimbabwe.
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Stretched across a tree-peppered expanse in Southern Africa lies the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, a medieval stone city of astounding wealth. Located in the present-day country of Zimbabwe, it’s the site of the second largest settlement ruins in Africa. But its history is controversial, defined by decades of dispute about who built it and why. Breeanna Elliott explores the mystery of Great Zimbabwe.
Lesson by Breeanna Elliott, directed by JodyPrody.
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In this video i give a brief history about the Great Zimbabwe empire which eventually gave rise to the Mutapa State. The Great Zimbabwe is where the nation of Zimbabwe gets it's name and identity, it is the place where the Zimbabwe birds were discovered before they were looted to a different museums across the world, even Cecil John Rhodes ended up with one.
Support me on Patreon: http://patreon.com/zimtechguy
Great Zimbabwe. A great example of Africa's engineering and architectural abilities. With soaring granite walls seven times taller than the average person, narrow corridors, and hundreds of Daga homes stretched across the plains, the city was once the capital of a grand medieval kingdom that controlled the gold trade from China to Persia.
So, why have most people never heard of it? Why have the ruins remained almost as elusive to modern researchers as they had to scholars more than 100 years ago? How could such a large and powerful civilization leave such vague and minuscule clues of its history?
The answers range from colonial destruction to lack of written records to contemporary economic issues in the country that took its name from the grand ancient city. So, what do we know about Great Zimbabwe, and will we ever gain access to its lost secrets?
Before diving headfirst into these questions, let's examine Great Zimbabwe: what makes the site so impressive, and what do we know about the people who lived there? #HistoryVille #GreatZimbabwe
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00:00 Intro
01:26 Construction of Great Zimbabwe
04:22 Kingdom of Zimbabwe
08:01 Destruction of Great Zimbabwe
10:19 Modern Research
11:49 Zimbabwe Today
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The existence of Great Zimbabwe implies, somewhere, the existence of Evil Zimbabwe. Evil Zimbabwe uses way too much mortar in their stone architecture, and they didn't play a major role in the medieval world's largest trade network either. This is why we at OSP prefer Great Zimbabwe, they played the Trade game like a champ and didn't need any mortar.
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Great Courses Lectures: "Great Zimbabwe and the Cities of the South" from "The African Experience: From Lucy to Mandela" by Kenneth P Vickery, and "Civilizations of Sub-Saharan Africa in 1215" from "Years that Changed History: 1215" by Dorsey Armstrong
Textual sources: National Geographic "Great Zimbabwe" https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-zimbabwe, Britannica "Great Zimbabwe" https://www.britannica.com/place/Great-Zimbabwe, World History Encyclopedia "Great Zimbabwe" by Mark Cartwright https://www.worldhistory.org/Great_Zimbabwe/
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The Great Zimbabwe Empire was one the great black empires to exist in ancient times. In this video, I visit the ancient ruins of this empire which consists of the King’s palace, the Queen’s palace, and smaller structures of royal family member’s houses. What amazed me about this site is that the most impressive building of this ancient city was the Queen’s palace. This was to show how honored she was in society. This is black history at its finest. This is one of many great African kingdoms that was never taught to us in school.
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0:00 - Intro
0:48 - Overview of Great Zimbabwe Empire
2:23 - Meeting the tour guides
3:50 - Map of Great Zimbabwe Ruins
4:23 - Kingdom of Mapungubwe & the Origins of Great Zimbabwe
5:47 - Ancient Path leading up to the King's Palace
6:56 - The King's 200 wives and 2,000 children
7:45 - The Queen's Palace measurements – Quick view of the The Great Enclosure
9:05 - Path
10:10 – Great Zimbabwe was heavily fortified and hard to invade
11:17 - Overlooking the landscape
11:45 - The King's Palace at Great Zimbabwe
13:33 - The Kings Palace's were burned after the death of each king
14:57 - Ancient kitchen
15:21 - Europeans destroyed the palace looking for gold
15:50 - Soap Stone Carved Birds & Ancient Artifacts
17:21 - Ancient religions of Africa & Great Zimbabwe
18:10 - Carved Stones and comparing it to Macchu Picchu
19:09 - The Valley Complex and where the King's wives lived
20:09 - The Queen's Palace; The Great Enclosure
22:13 - Colonization government hiding evidence that africans built Great Zimbabwe
23:28 - The conical Tower
24:13 - Why the Great Zimbabwe Empire collapsed
26:01 - The legacy of Great Zimbabwe
27:17 - End of tour and final thoughts
29:36 - Outro
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Stretched across a tree-peppered expanse in Southern Africa lies the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, a medieval stone city of astounding wealth. Located in the present-day country of Zimbabwe, it’s the site of the second largest settlement ruins in Africa. But its history is controversial, defined by decades of dispute about who built it and why. Breeanna Elliott explores the mystery of Great Zimbabwe.
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The Kingdom of Zimbabwe (1220–1450) was a kingdom located in the territory of modern-day Zimbabwe. It is famous for its capital, Great Zimbabwe, the largest stone structure in southern Africa until recent times.
Name
Zimbabwe is the modern name issued to the most prominent pre-colonial civilization in southern Africa. The name is derived from one of two possible terms: the Shona (dzimba dza mabwe or "great stone houses") or Kalanga (Nzi we mabwe or "Homestead of Stone").
Origin
The creators of the Zimbabwe kingdom immigrated to the Zimbabwe plateau from the Kingdom of Mapungubwe in southern Africa in the early 11th century.
Culture and expansion
The rulers of Zimbabwe brought artistic and stonemasonry traditions from Mapungubwe. The construction of elaborate stone buildings and walls reached its apex in the kingdom. The institution of mambo was also used at Zimbabwe, along with an increasingly rigid three-tiered class structure. The kingdom taxed other rulers throughout the region. The kingdom was composed of over 150 tributaries headquartered in their own minor zimbabwes. They established rule over a wider area than the Mapungubwe, the Butua or the Mutapa.