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Can the Guessarium name the Founding of Great Zimbabwe?
Think of Founding of Great Zimbabwe and answer yes or no. The Guessarium closes in, usually in under fifteen questions. Around 1100 CE, construction began at Great Zimbabwe, a stone city in southeastern Africa that grew into the capital of a powerful Shona kingdom. You'll see play statistics here once real games have been recorded.
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What happened at the Founding of Great Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe arose on the plateau of present-day Zimbabwe, built by ancestors of the Shona people beginning around the eleventh century and expanding over the following centuries. Its builders raised massive granite walls without mortar, creating enclosures such as the Great Enclosure and the Hill Complex. The city became the center of a trading kingdom that controlled gold and ivory routes linking the interior to the Indian Ocean coast, exchanging goods with Swahili merchants and, through them, with Arabia, Persia, India, and China. At its height it may have housed thousands of people. The site was largely abandoned by the mid-fifteenth century, likely due to resource depletion and shifting trade patterns, but its ruins remain the largest stone structures in sub-Saharan Africa built before modern times.
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When did Founding of Great Zimbabwe happen?
Founding of Great Zimbabwe is dated to c. 1100.
What was Founding of Great Zimbabwe?
Great Zimbabwe arose on the plateau of present-day Zimbabwe, built by ancestors of the Shona people beginning around the eleventh century and expanding over the following centuries. Its builders raised massive granite walls without mortar, creating enclosures such as the Great Enclosure and the Hill Complex. The city became the center of a trading kingdom that controlled gold and ivory routes linking the interior to the Indian Ocean coast, exchanging goods with Swahili merchants and, through them, with Arabia, Persia, India, and China. At its height it may have housed thousands of people. The site was largely abandoned by the mid-fifteenth century, likely due to resource depletion and shifting trade patterns, but its ruins remain the largest stone structures in sub-Saharan Africa built before modern times.
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