Zimbabwean kingdom

(41) During one of the periods of Bantu’s migration, a new cultural complex of one of the Kusi-Bantu groups, had developed on the Zimbabwe plateau—a development that later led to the emergence of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe.

● The ethnic group of this Kusi-Bantu community:

● The century when such cultural complex developed:

Shona

10th century

(42) The Kingdom of Zimbabwe emerged from its settled Shona communities in the thirteenth century C.E. However, be the early of certain period, the kingdom had expanded because of population growth in and around the city of Great Zimbabwe.

● The years in which this happened:

● The number of the people that emerged at that time because of such growth:

Between 110 and 1300 C.E.

11,000 people

43) The original inhabitants of the Zimbabwe Kingdom practiced a kind of “mixed economy.” 

● The type of their “mixed economy”

agriculture and pastoralism

(44) During the reign of Zimbabwe Kingdom, two minerals were traded in exchange for a variety of exotic wares from the coast, including porcelains from China and beads from India.

● The two minerals that were traded in exchange for the exotic wares.

Gold and ivory

(45) The Kingdom of Zimbabwe grew as a center of an expansive economic and political network. However, at certain time the ruling class began to lose control of the coastal trade, which later led to the final abandonment of the site of Great Zimbabwe.

● The year in which the ruling class began to lose control:

● The year that the kingdom was finally abandoned:

1420 C.E.

1450 C.E.