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Great Zimbabwe was a city in the south-eastern hills of the modern country of Zimbabwe, near Masvingo. ... The Great Enclosure is composed of an inner wall ...
Free-standing walls of the Great Zimbabwe. During the second millennium BCE, two conventional styles of stone architecture dominated the architecture of Zimbabwe. The first style was Great Zimbabwe period architecture, which was an extension of natural elements. [1] The well-coursed and thick stone walls were constructed on earth foundations.
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At Great Zimbabwe's centre was the Great Enclosure which housed royalty and had demarcated spaces for rituals, while commoners surrounded them within the second perimeter wall. The Zimbabwe state was composed of over 150 smaller zimbabwes and likely covered 50,000 km² (19,000 square miles).
A n'anga, close to Great Zimbabwe. Historically, colonialists and anthropologists wanted to undermine the Shona religion in favour of Christianity. Initially, they stated that Shona did not have a God. They denigrated the way the Shona had communicated with their God Mwari, the Shona way of worship, and chosen people among the Shona. The chosen ...
The site consists of four main "Ohingni" (i.e. settlements) surrounded by walls with low entrances, the walls were built by stacking irregularly-shaped stones without the use of any mortar, the result being an interlocked wall with immense stability similar to walls of Great Zimbabwe 3600 kilometers to the south of the settlement.
Great Zimbabwe Ruins E.N 485 1950 Dry Stone Walls Archaeological Southern Masvingo: Masvingo: 3 ... Dry Stone Wall Archaeological Southern Masvingo: Masvingo 138