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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) | 13 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 | southern african kingdom | 2 sets | |
| 8 | 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 | |
| 9 | 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 | |
| 10 | leading civilization of early southern africa and exporter of gold to the east african coast | 2 sets | |
| 11 | large sub-saharan african kingdom in the fifteenth century. | 2 sets | |
| 12 | started by shona tribe, very big and great kingdom, empire built on gold trade, farmed had cattle, 1450 disappeared. | 2 sets | |
| 13 | 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 | |
| 14 | bantu confederation of shona-speaking peoples located between zambezi and limpopo rivers | 2 sets | |
| 15 | 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 | |
| 16 | impressive 60-acre stone city in southern africa abandoned by 1450 | 2 sets | |
| 17 | an empire in southeast africa that was built upon gold trade. it means "stone enclosure". | 1 set | |
| 18 | great stone buildings (southern africa) | 1 set | |
| 19 | 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 | |
| 20 | what city controlled trade routes and was the economic, political, and religious center of an empire? | 1 set | |
| 21 | kingdom along the zambezi river, made up of bantu people | 1 set | |
| 22 | 1000-1500, discovered 1817 gold, bantu speaking, but ran out of gold and then they died | 1 set | |
| 23 | what city controlled trade routes adn was the economic, political, and religious center of an empire? | 1 set | |
| 24 | with massive stone buildings and walls, incorporates the greatest early buildings in sub-saharan africa (largest ruins in africa..woahh) | 1 set | |
| 25 | an empire built by the shona people | 1 set | |
| 26 | in south africa, shona people established this city, masters of construction, considered their kigns to be gods | 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 | great stone buildings, it's where massive stone ruins are | 1 set | |
| 29 | a south african kingdom from 1000 a.d. to 1450 a.d.; traded gold | 1 set | |
| 30 | 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 | |
| 31 | east african stucture and center for trade | 1 set | |
| 32 | stone ruin of a city made of 3 parts. | 1 set | |
| 33 | capital city of zimbabwe | 1 set | |
| 34 | 0 | 1 set | |
| 35 | city-state in central-eastern africa of the shona people; center of gold trade with arabian states | 1 set | |
| 36 | wealthy & powerful trading state located near the zambezi river; 12th – 15th century | 1 set | |
| 37 | power, southern african city | 1 set | |
| 38 | a stone city built by the shona people, beginning in the 900s a.d., in the area that is today zimbabwe. means "great stone house." | 1 set | |
| 39 | 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 | |
| 40 | city established by the shona people, abandoned in 1450 | 1 set | |