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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Brada-Anansi: [QB] Well the Portuguese did make mention of Zimbabwe gave some description of it but I forgot where to find it,but they did mentioned that the Kings were powerful and the King's wife had the right to strangle him when he start loosing his teeth also they dressed in silks and dined off crystal that's as far as memory takes me but I find this just now a link within Wiki [b] ZIWA[/b] [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Ziwa_enclosure_trees.JPG/800px-Ziwa_enclosure_trees.JPG[/IMG] [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Ziwa_ruins_pitentrance.JPG/792px-Ziwa_ruins_pitentrance.JPG[/IMG] [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Ziwa_ruins_wall.JPG/450px-Ziwa_ruins_wall.JPG[/IMG] Description Ziwa bears evidence of human occupation for all the major archaeological periods identified in Zimbabwe's archaeological sequence. That is from hunter-gatherer periods of the Stone Age to historical times. 33 37 hectares of land comprise: Stone Age deposits, rock art sites, early farming communities settlements, a landscape of later farming communities marked by terraces and field systems, hill forts, pit structures and stone enclosures, iron smelting and forging furnaces and numerous remains of daub-plastered housing structures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziwa And yes there was civil war causing a split into two Kingdoms the successor was called the Rozwi History In 1693, Portuguese militia tried to take control of the gold trade in the interior of sub-saharan Africa by invading the Rozwi empire. The Rozwi were able to successfully defeat these attacks and maintain their control of the gold mines until their empire collapsed. The Rozwi were led by Changamire Dombo, whose power was based in Butua in the southwest of sub-Saharan Africa. The Rozwi were formed from several Shona states that dominated the plateau of present-day Zimbabwe at the time. They drove the Portuguese off the central plateau, and the Europeans retained only a nominal presence at one of the fairs in the eastern highlands. Changamire brought the whole of present-day Zimbabwe under his control, forming a polity that became known as the Rozwi Empire. This fierce tribe of warriors was to be known as the Rozvi or baLozwi people.[1] They established their capital at Danamombe, also known as Dhlo-Dhlo (the Ndebele name). Many sources see the Rozvi not as a recovering segment of the Mutapa people, but in fact a people in its own right emerging under the wing of the Mutapa (compare the rise of the Khumalo from under the Zulu nation). The administrative power of the Mutapa began to fall to control the whole empire, and tributaries began to exert more independence. A leader of the people of guruuswa, given the title Changamire and known as Dombo, became independent from the Mutapa. When the Portuguese tried to colonize, Changamire Dombo led rebellions against their rule. The area of the Rozwi empire fluctuated. Its influence extended over much of present-day Zimbabwe, westward into Botswana, and southward into northeastern South Africa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozwi_empire Wiki sourced but I have read the same info else where sometime back. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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