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	Great Zimbabwe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Great Zimbabwe is the name given to the remains, sometimes referred to as the Great Zimbabwe Ruins, of an ancient Southern African city, located at 20°16′S 30°54′E in present-day Zimbabwe which was once the centre of a vast empire known as the Munhumutapa Empire (also called Monomotapa Empire).
		Great Zimbabwe is modern Zimbabwe's national shrine, where the Zimbabwe Bird (a national symbol of Zimbabwe) was found.
		Great Zimbabwe is the name given to hundreds of great stone ruins spread out over a 200 square mile area within the modern day country of Zimbabwe, which itself is named after the ruins.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Zimbabwe (1263 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Great Zimbabwe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Great Zimbabwe is the name given to the remains of a Southern African ancient city, located in present-day Zimbabwe which was once the centre of a vast empire known as the Munhumutapa Empire (also called Monomotapa Empire) covering the modern states of Zimbabwe (which took its name from this city) and Mozambique.
		Built consistently throughout the period from the years AD 400 to the 15th century, the ruins at Great Zimbabwe are some of the oldest and largest structures located in Sub-Saharan Africa.
		A soapstone carving of a bird picked up in The Great Zimbabwe by an early European visitor was sold to Cecil Rhodes, who was intrigued by it, had copies made which he gave to friends, and even had large versions set up as gateposts at home in Cambridgeshire.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Great_Zimbabwe (760 words)

	Zimbabwe
		Oral tradition has it that Great Zimbabwe Enclosure or 'Great House of Stone' was built in the 12th century by the Karanga Bantu tribes who moved into this area from the north in the 8th century and were the ancestors of today's Shona majority.
		Zimbabwe became independent in April 1980, when the Lancaster House agreements with Britain brought to an end 15 years of unilaterally declared independence by the former white-minority Government of Rhodesia and the armed conflict that engendered it.
		The “Zimbabwe Connection” is a not-for-profit, voluntary, Association duly registered in terms of the Associations Incorporations Act, 1985.Its objectives are to provide assistance to all Zimbabweans who, for whatever reasons, have left or are intending to leave Zimbabwe to make a new home for themselves and their families in Australia.
	us-africa.tripod.com /zimbabwe.html (2499 words)

	Great Zimbabwe
		Great Zimbabwe is an archeological site, the remains of an ancient city in the present day nation of Zimbabwe.
		When translated from Bantu, the word Zimbabwe means something akin to "sacred house" or "seat of the king".
		Built consistently throughout the years 400 AD and the 15th century, the ruins at Great Zimbabwe are the oldest and largest structures located south of the Sahara desert yet to be discovered on the continent of Africa.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gr/Great_Zimbabwe.html (421 words)

	Great Zimbabwe - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Great Zimbabwe, historic city in southern Africa that was established in the 11th century ad and flourished for about 300 years beginning in the...
		The trading state which was based at Great Zimbabwe began to develop in the 11th century, taking over from Mapungubwe in the 13th, and reaching its...
		Great Zimbabwe, today a large complex of stone walls and ruins, was once thought to be isolated evidence of Arabian or Egyptian presence in the...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Great_Zimbabwe.html (134 words)

	Great Zimbabwe - Simple English Wikipedia
		Great Zimbabwe is an important place in Africa.
		The people who lived at Great Zimbabwe were rich merchants who controlled trade between the coast and inland Africa.
		Great Zimbabwe has been made a World Heritage Site because it is so big and important..
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Zimbabwe (280 words)

	Great Zimbabwe
		The Bantu translation for Zimbabwe is "house of stone" due to the Great Zimbabwe ruins (Maquet 131).
		Great Zimbabwe became the capital civilization of central Africa known for its famous stone monument.
		This was the beginning of the end for the Shona tribe and the civilization of Great Zimbabwe, for the ruins were not rediscovered until 1871 (Maquet 131).
	www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/Africa/04/Rcluderay/Rcluderay.htm (827 words)

	Great Zimbabwe
		Zimbabwe was occupied from the 13th to the 15th centuries by ancestors of the Shona.
		The population of Great Zimbabwe, previously estimated at 1,000 before the outside dwelling areas were taken into consideration, is now believed to have been as high as 18,000.
		Great Zimbabwe declined probably due to a number of factors including environmental degradation and a decline in the gold trade.
	www.geocities.com /CollegePark/Classroom/9912/greatzimbabwe.html (849 words)

	Civilizations in Africa: The Mwenemutapa
		Because of the wealth of Zimbabwe and the importance of Sofala as a trading city, the Zimbabweans from 1000 AD onwards were exposed to Chinese, Persian, and Indian crafts and culture.
		Great Zimbabwe was a fortification surrounded by huge, elliptical stone walls made without any mortar.
		By 1500, Great Zimbabwe dominated the Zambezi Valley both militarily and commercially (the Mwenemutapa empire); because of this, the new ideas about divine kingship spread throughout the valley and changed the social structures of most of the Bantu people living there.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/CIVAFRCA/MWEN.HTM (242 words)

	GREAT ZIMBABWE: A History Almost Forgotten
		The civilization of Great Zimbabwe was one of the most significant civilizations in the world during the Medieval period.
		The location of Great Zimbabwe is in south central Africa, in current-day Zimbabwe, between the Zambezi (north) and Limpopo (south) rivers.
		Great Zimbabwe declined and was abandoned around 1450 AD for unknown reasons.
	www.manuampim.com /ZIMBABWE.html (1972 words)

	The Story of Africa\| BBC World Service
		This was not different from the accounts of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century antiquarians, which linked Great Zimbabwe with Phoenicia, with Saban Arabs, with the Egyptians and the rest of the near East.
		The evidence suggests that Great Zimbabwe was at the centre of an international commercial system, which on the continent of Africa, encompassed settlements on the East African Coast such as Kilwa, Malindi and Mogadishu.
		The other explanation is that the people of Great Zimbabwe had to move in order to maximise their exploitation of the gold trade network.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/10chapter1.shtml (777 words)

	GREAT ZIMBABWE: INTRODUCTION TO AN AFRICAN JOURNEY
		Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe and the reclaiming of Zimbabwean land by its indigenous people, Zimbabwe has been catapulted prominently into the international news headlines for the past several months.
		Geographically, Zimbabwe (known during the colonial period as Southern Rhodesia) is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the west, Mozambique to the east, and Zambia to the north.
		One of the great highlights of the entire Zimbabwe trip came on a day that I didn't lecture and was driven far from the confines of Bulawayo.
	www.cwo.com /~lucumi/zimbabwe.html (1674 words)

	Great Zimbabwe, Africa's Great Ruin
		Zimbabwe is currently in turmoil as a result of the conversion of the country to one-man rule by its increasingly dictatorial president, Robert Mugabe.
		Because of Great Zimbabwe’s importance to the country and its self-image, it is under no danger of harm or destruction.
		Some claim, given the sacred connotations of its name, that Great Zimbabwe was a religious center, inspired by the worship of Mwari, the creator and sustainer of all things.
	www.theculturedtraveler.com /Heritage/Archives/Zimbabwe.htm (950 words)

	Zimbabwe Home
		Land reform in Zimbabwe had long between a topic of discussion as the minority white population owned the vast majority of farm land.
		Great Zimbabwe (meaning houses of stone) was finished in the 14th century and housed as many as 20,000 people.
		Great Zimbabwe, as well as being a religious center, was also a great trade center and items from China, Persia and India have been found there.
	www.questconnect.org /africa_zimbabwe.htm (1889 words)

	Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The European discovery of the Americas in 1492 was followed by a great development of the slave trade, which, before the Portuguese era, had been an overland trade almost exclusively, and never confined to any one continent.
		Great instability, however, was mainly the result of marginalization of other ethnic groups and graft under these leaders.
		The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt was the world's tallest architectural accomplishment for 4,000 years until the creation of the Eiffel Tower.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Africa (5579 words)

	GORP - Great Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe National Park
		Great Zimbabwe, a sprawling archipelago of carefully hewn stone, is conclusive evidence of a burgeoning African civilization which reached its apex long before the arrival of Europeans.
		But it would be a great mistake to think that Great Zimbabwe is the only historical site worth visiting in the country.
		Zimbabwe's ancient rock art enjoys a worldwide reputation and demonstrates the close relationship which prehistoric Africans felt with the animal kingdom.
	www.gorp.com /gorp/location/africa/zimbabwe/greatzim.htm (348 words)

	The Ruins of Great Zimbabwe
		The ruins at Great Zimbabwe are remarkable; lofty, majestic, awe-inspiring, timeless.
		The Great Enclosure is the largest single ancient structure south of the Sahara.
		The legacy of Great Zimbabwe is widespread throughout the region.
	www.places.co.za /html/greatzim.html (317 words)

	Zimbabwe
		The word "Zimbabwe" (plural madzimbabwe) is the derived from the Shona words dzimba dza mabwe which means 'houses of stone'.
		Zimbabwe with a population of 14 million is located in Southern Africa.
		Zimbabwe is a high plateau country, risings to mountains on the eastern border, sloping down on the other borders.
	www.westfound.com /Zimbabwe.html (304 words)

	Great Zimbabwe (11th-15th century A.D.) \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		All of Great Zimbabwe's walls were fitted without the use of mortar by laying stones one on top of the other, each layer slightly more recessed than the last to produce a stabilizing inward slope.
		At its height, Great Zimbabwe is estimated to have had a population greater than 10,000, although the majority lived at some distance from the large stone buildings.
		In addition to architecture, Great Zimbabwe's most famous works of art are the eight birds carved of soapstone that were found in its ruins.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/zimb/hd_zimb.htm (836 words)

	Travel Guide to Zimbabwe
		Zimbabwe is a land of diversity and contrasts and unrivalled natural beauty.
		Harare is the capital of Zimbabwe and boasts the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and the Harare Gardens, the city's largest park.
		The Great Zimbabwe National Monument is the greatest medieval city in sub-Saharan Africa and provides evidence that ancient Africa reached a level of civilisation not suspected by early scholars.
	www.places.co.za /zimbabwe (360 words)

	CNN.com - Star sheds light on African 'Stonehenge' - Dec. 5, 2002
		Mysterious ruins in Zimbabwe, nearly brushed this week by the shadow of a total solar eclipse, once served as an astronomical observatory to track eclipses, solstices and an elusive exploding star, a South African scientist said.
		The Great Enclosure in the archaeological site of Great Zimbabwe, a crumbling ring of stone walls and platforms about 250 meters in circumference, was thought to have been a palace complex for regional rulers some 800 years ago.
		The arrangement of the walls, the complicated symbols on stone monoliths and the position of a tall tower suggest that medieval Zimbabweans used the complex to track the moon, sun, planets and stars for centuries.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/TECH/space/12/05/zimbabwe.observatory (476 words)

	Zimbabwe,Zimbabwe Accommodation,Hotels in Zimbabwe,Car Rentals,Flights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The ancient stone structures, also known as Great Zimbabwe Ruins or simply Great Zimbabwe, are the largest in Africa south of the Egyptian pyramids.
		Great Zimbabwe, the greatest medieval city in sub-Saharan Africa, provides evidence that ancient Africa reached a level of civilisation not suspected by early scholars.
		Zimbabwe is one of the world's least expensive and least crowded golfing venues, and if you're interested in such novelties as warthogs rooting around on the fairways and crocodiles in the water hazards, it's ideal.
	zimbabwe.securebooking.org (860 words)

	The Coffees of Zimbabwe
		Zimbabwe's future does not look as bright as it did 10 years ago, when it was a model of progress in East Africa.
		The land of Zimbabwe is primarily covered with savanna; a particularly lush grass grows during the moist summers.
		Zimbabwe established strict classification and grading standards in order to insure that fine quality coffees would be produced for export.
	www.sweetmarias.com /coffee.africa.zimbabwe.html (1164 words)

	Great Zimbabwe Ruins \| African safaris \| Great Zimbabwe, Great Zimbabwe ruins
		Great Zimbabwe gave the modern nation its name as the word 'Zimbabwe' is derived from Shona words that mean 'houses of stone' or 'venerated house'.
		The prevailing theory behind the Great Zimbabwe Ruins is that this structure was used as a royal compound.
		Zimbabwe is home to three other World Heritage Sites — Victoria Falls, Mana Pools National Park, and the Khame Ruins as well as featuring some magnificent National Parks including Hwange and Matobo Hills, not to mention boasting one of the largest man-made lakes in the world, Lake Kariba.
	www.ccafricasafaris.com /destinations/zimbabwe/greatzimbabweruins (360 words)

	Great Zimbabwe Ruins - World Heritage Site - Pictures, info and travel reports
		Great Zimbabwe (“stone houses”) was a main regional trading center, its wealth associated with (Arab) gold trading.
		I visited the Zimbabwe ruins on safari last year and was told they were created hundreds of thousands of years ago by "gods!" Documentation is found in the oldest writings--Sumerian tablets.
		The great zimbabwe is located in the southern part of africa in a country called zimbabwe.
	www.worldheritagesite.org /sites/greatzimbabweruins.html (1054 words)

	Great Zimbabwe
		By about 1200, Zimbabwe was occupied by prominent Karanga chiefs, who erected in the valley below the Acropolis the immense elliptical structure known as the Great Enclosure.
		The great freestanding outer wall of granite blocks, more than 244 m long and up to 9.8 m high, enclosed large huts, compounds, and a mysterious conical tower.
		Zimbabwe's rulers bartered copper and gold from mines under their control with traders from the east African coast.
	www.zimbabwe.8m.com /zimgre.html (421 words)

	Riddle of Great Zimbabwe
		The largest ancient stone construction south of the Sahara, Great Zimbabwe was built between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries by the ancestors of the Shona, one of Zimbabwe's many Bantu-speaking groups.
		In Bantu, zimbabwe means "sacred house" or "ritual seat of a king." An important trading center and capital of the medieval Zimbabwe state, the city controlled much of interior southeast Africa for nearly two centuries.
		It is precisely for this reason that Great Zimbabwe has come to serve as a proving ground for one of archaeology's newest subspecialties, cognitive archaeology--the science of penetrating the ancient human mind to glean information about the religion, ideology, and politics of past cultures.
	www.archaeology.org /9807/abstracts/africa.html (849 words)

	Archaeology Wordsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Great Zimbabwe was the capital of the Shona empire from 1270-1450 AD, which stretched from the Zambezi River to the northern Transvaal of South Africa and eastern Botswana.
		gold was the principal export; Great Zimbabwe appears to have been at the center of a network of related sites through which control was exercised over the gold-producing areas.
		Archaeologically, the culture is called the Zimbabwe tradition and is divided into Mapungubwe, Zimbabwe, and Khami phases.
	www.reference-wordsmith.com /cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?category=&where=headword&terms=Zimbabwe (231 words)

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