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| great zimbabwe definitions | |||
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| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | a powerful southeast african city | 17 sets | |
| 2 | city, now in ruins (in the modern african country of zimbabwe), whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state. (p. 385) | 9 sets | |
| 3 | bantu confederation of shona-speaking peoples located between zambezi and limpopo rivers; developed after 9th century; featured royal courts built of stone; created centralized state by 15th century; king took title of mwene mutapa | 5 sets | |
| 4 | a powerful se african city | 3 sets | |
| 5 | started by shana tribe, very big and great kingdom, empire built on gold trade, farmed had cattle, 1450 disappeared. | 3 sets | |
| 6 | aka great stone buildings, discovered in 1800s by europeans who thought the phoenicians built them but bantu-speaking africans did, kept cattle in stone enclosing, did not run out of gold | 3 sets | |
| 7 | impressive 60-acre stone city in southern africa abandoned by 1450 | 2 sets | |
| 8 | the stone city that was built several hundred years ago; the first white explorers refused to believe it was built by black africans and later proved wrong; chief center of early settled life in southern africa | 2 sets | |
| 9 | started by shona tribe, very big and great kingdom, empire built on gold trade, farmed had cattle, 1450 disappeared. | 2 sets | |
| 10 | bantu confederation of shona-speaking peoples located between zambezi and limpopo rivers | 2 sets | |
| 11 | southern african kingdom | 2 sets | |
| 12 | city, now in ruins (in the modern african country of zimbabwe), whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state. | 2 sets | |
| 13 | large sub-saharan african kingdom in the fifteenth century. | 2 sets | |
| 14 | leading civilization of early southern africa and exporter of gold to the east african coast | 2 sets | |
| 15 | this empoires name had the meaning honored houses of houses of stone and not much is known about it because they left no oral traditions or written documents | 2 sets | |
| 16 | this city became the economic, political, and religious center of its empire, due to its location which linked the goldfields with the coastal trading city of sofala. this city had huge stone walls, and more than 10,000 people lived there. | 2 sets | |
| 17 | an empire in southeast africa that was built upon gold trade. it means "stone enclosure". | 1 set | |
| 18 | in south africa, shona people established this city, masters of construction, considered their kigns to be gods | 1 set | |
| 19 | est. by shon, abandoned in 1450 | 1 set | |
| 20 | city established by the shona people, abandoned in 1450 | 1 set | |
| 21 | a stone city built by the shona people, beginning in the a.d. 900's, in the area that is today zimbabwe. (p. 547) | 1 set | |
| 22 | great stone buildings (southern africa) | 1 set | |
| 23 | a city established in what is now zimbabwe by the shona around 1000; it became the capital of a thriving gold-trading area. | 1 set | |
| 24 | kingdom along the zambezi river, made up of bantu people | 1 set | |
| 25 | an empire built by the shona people | 1 set | |
| 26 | great stone buildings, it's where massive stone ruins are | 1 set | |
| 27 | a city in south eastern africa that reached its heights in abotut 1400; features large stone encolousers; zimbabwe means "houses of stone" | 1 set | |
| 28 | what city controlled trade routes and was the economic, political, and religious center of an empire? | 1 set | |
| 29 | a south african kingdom from 1000 a.d. to 1450 a.d.; traded gold | 1 set | |
| 30 | large settlement 1300-1400 ad stone enclosures | 1 set | |
| 31 | bantu confederation of shona-speaking peoples located between zambezi and limpopo rivers; developed after 9th century; featured royal courts built of stone; created centralized state by 15th century; king took title of mwene mutapa. | 1 set | |
| 32 | 0 | 1 set | |
| 33 | capital city of zimbabwe | 1 set | |
| 34 | wealthy & powerful trading state located near the zambezi river; 12th – 15th century | 1 set | |
| 35 | city-state in central-eastern africa of the shona people; center of gold trade with arabian states | 1 set | |
| 36 | started by shona tribe, built an empire on gold trade, abandoned in 1450 but no one knows why | 1 set | |
| 37 | a city built of stone impressive, abandoned in 1450 | 1 set | |
| 38 | east african stucture and center for trade | 1 set | |
| 39 | stone ruin of a city made of 3 parts. | 1 set | |
| 40 | the central settlement of the shona empire | 1 set | |