The Great Zimbabwe
A little less than thirty km beyond the southeastern
town of Masvingo, there are really extraordinary, very informal looking ruins
from The Great Zimbabwe. The Great Zimbabwe is a mysterious ruin in the African
nation formerly known as Rhodesia, which means Zimbabwe in a different language.
The Great Zimbabwe was built over SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS ago, and covers about
one thousand eight hundred acres. That is very old and big, don’t you
think so?
The builders of the Great Zimbabwe owned from Zambesi to the Limpopo Rivers
and tracts between the Kalahari Desert and the Indian Ocean. Zimbabwe means
house of rock in Shona. (Shona are the people that lived in Zimbabwe, and
Scientists believe as many as 40,000 Shona lived in the city at it’s
height.)
People of The Great abwe left no record of written language or oral traditions
behind. Great Zimbabwe is well known because it’s not known how the
Shona constructed it or why the civilization declined around 1600.