The view that agriculture was the mainstay of the economy of Great Zimbabwe does not carry momentum. While on one hand, Great Zimbabwe’s economy featured agriculture, that is, the growing of crops and rearing of livestock, on the other hand, it also was largely characterizing of trade, hunting, mining, iron smelting, tribute payment and raiding. […]
There is great veracity in the assertion that the decline of the Great Zimbabwe state was caused by internal than external factors. Internal factors such as successionist politics, exhaustion of minerals, rise of diseases and decline in trade had a great bearing on the decline of the Great Zimbabwe state.
The Europeans invented a narrative, backed by a lot of bogus research that it was the Phoenician traders who, according to Biblical narrative had reached Africa built Zimbabwe, proving that Africans were inferior primitives incapable of such a task.
Great Zimbabwe is a medieval city in the south eastern hills of Zimbabwe near lake Mutirikwe and the town of Masvingo. It was the capital of Zimbabwe during the country’s late iron age. Construction of the monument began in the 11th century and continued until the 15th century. It was built by members of the Gokomere culture who are ancestors of the Shona in Zimbabwe.
The Great Zimbabwe state started as a political unit before about 1250. Radio carbon
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