Kingdom of Zimbabwe

Examples of Kingdom of Zimbabwe in the following topics:

• Great Zimbabwe

  • Great Zimbabwe was the capital of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe (13th–15th c.); it flourished as an international gold and ivory trade center and its architecturally unique ruins remain among the oldest and largest structures in Southern Africa.
  • It was the capital of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe during the country's Late Iron Age.
  • The Kingdom of Zimbabwe, of which Great Zimbabwe was the capital, existed between circa 1220 and 1450 in modern-day Zimbabwe.
  • There, they would establish the Kingdom of Zimbabwe around 1220.
  • In the south, the Kingdom of Butua was established as a smaller but nearly identical version of Zimbabwe.

• Architecture of Great Zimbabwe

  • Located about 150 miles from the modern Zimbabwean capital of Harare, Great Zimbabwe was the capital of a medieval kingdom that occupied the region on the eastern edge of Kalahari Desert.
  • One of its most prominent features of Great Zimbabwe was its walls, some of which reached five to 11 meters high and extended approximately 820 feet.
  • These are thought to be seats of authority for local governors acting under the king of Great Zimbabwe.
  • The site of Great Zimbabwe is considered a source of pride in the region, and the modern nation of Zimbabwe derived its name from the site.
  • Distinguish the features of the Hill Complex, the Greate Enclosure, and the Valley Complex of Great Zimbabwe.

• Mugabe and the Republic of Zimbabwe

• Domestic Architecture in Modern Africa

  • The architecture of Africa, like that of any vast region or continent, is exceptionally diverse.
  • One common theme in a great deal of traditional African architecture is the use of fractal scaling: small parts of the structure tend to look similar to larger parts, such as a circular village made of circular houses.
  • A number of new cities were built following the end of colonialism, while others were greatly expanded.
  • Experimental designs have also appeared, most notably the Eastgate Centre, Harare in Zimbabwe.
  • Lunda dwellings (from the Kingdom of Lunda, a pre-colonial African confederation of states in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, north-eastern Angola, and northwestern Zambia from c. 1665–1887) display the square and the cone-on-ground types of African vernacular architecture.

• Leadership

  • These included small family groups of hunter-gatherers as well as larger, heavily structured clan groups and autonomous city-states and kingdoms.
  • Other kingdoms were ruled by kings or priest kings: for example the Yoruba city-state of Ife established its government under a priestly oba ("king") called the Ooni of Ife.
  • When the Kongo Kingdom was at its political apex in the 16th and 17th centuries, the king was elected from among a noble class of descendants of former kings—usually the holders of important offices.
  • The activities of the court were supported by an extensive system of civil servants, and the court itself usually consisted of numerous relatives or clients of the king.
  • Societies like Great Zimbabwe show a high degree of social stratification, which is common of centralized states.

• The Bantu Migration

  • The Bantu expansion is the name for a postulated millennia-long series of migrations of speakers of the original proto-Bantu language group.
  • The linguistic core of the Bantu family of languages, a branch of the Niger-Congo language family, was located in the adjoining region of Cameroon and Nigeria.
  • Between the 13th and 15th centuries, the relatively powerful Bantu-speaking states on a scale larger than local chiefdoms began to emerge in the Great Lakes region, in the savanna south of the Central African rainforest, and on the Zambezi river where the Monomatapa kings built the famous Great Zimbabwe complex.
  • By the time Great Zimbabwe had ceased being the capital of a large trading empire, speakers of Bantu languages were present throughout much of Southern Africa.
  • In 1816, Shaka, one of the most influential monarchs of the Zulu Kingdom, acceded to the Zulu throne.

• Portugal and West Africa

  • They were astronomical charts plotting the location of the stars over a distinct period of time.
  • Portuguese colonization of some parts of Africa would have a very negative impact on the existing civilizations.
  • Two other important African kingdoms, the Kongo and the Monomotapa, would also be destroyed by the Portuguese conquerors.
  • Nevertheless, a diminished Kongo Kingdom would still exist until 1885, when the last Manicongo, Pedro V, ceded his almost non-existent domain to Portugal.
  • The Portuguese dealt with the other major state of Southern Africa, the Monomotapa (in modern Zimbabwe), in a similar manner.

• Art of Ancient Africa

  • As the birthplace of the human species, Africa is the home of some of the oldest art forms on Earth.
  • The Nubian Kingdom of Kush in modern Sudan was in close and often hostile contact with Egypt, and produced monumental sculpture mostly derivative of styles that did not lead to the north.
  • Each of these bronzes were produced in one piece.
  • Architectural ruins in locations such as Mali and Zimbabwe demonstrate the popularity of load-bearing architecture in such diverse materials as adobe and stone.
  • Provide an overview of sculpture, architecture, and rock art produced by cultures of ancient Africa.

• Three Kingdoms Period

  • The Three Kingdoms of Korea included the Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla Kingdoms from roughly the first century BCE to the 7th century CE.
  • The concept of the Three Kingdoms of Korea refers to the three kingdoms of Goguryeo (37 BCE – 668 CE; it was later known as Goryeo, from which the name Korea is derived), Baekje (18 BCE – 660 CE), and Silla (57 BCE – 935 CE).
  • The three kingdoms occupied parts of Manchuria, present-day China and Russia, and the Korean Peninsula.
  • The Baekje and Silla Kingdoms only dominated the southern part of the peninsula, whereas the Goguryeo Kingdom controlled the Liaodong Peninsula, Manchuria, and the northern half of the Korean Peninsula.
  • The Silla Kingdom tombs were mostly inaccessible to looters, and so many examples of Korean art have been preserved from this kingdom.

• The Costs of Inflation

  • The costs of inflation include menu costs, shoe leather costs, loss of purchasing power, and the redistribution of wealth.
  • Further, a low level of inflation encourages people to invest their money in productive projects rather than keeping savings in the form of unproductive currency, since inflation will slowly erode the value of money.
  • The name stems from the cost of restaurants literally printing new menus, but economists use it to refer to the costs of changing nominal prices in general.
  • Other costs of high and/or unexpected inflation include the economic costs of hoarding and social unrest.
  • The photo shows bills worth millions and billions of dollars that were printed by the Zimbabwe government as a response to massive inflation.