Social Structure
These were women’s roles in Zimbabwe society. (List as many as you can)
What are sowing, tending crops, harvesting them, preparing food, and/or fetching water?
The religious center of Great Zimbabwe was located here.
What is the Hill Complex?
This was the first significant empire to emerge in South Africa.
What was Great Zimbabwe?
This natural resource was central to Great Zimbabwe.
What is gold?
Even though the kingdom's ruins were rediscovered over 100 years ago, this is why Great Zimbabwe’s history is still shrouded in mystery and controversy today.
What is the prejudiced European government supporting historians' falsification of their research in order to prove the Africans didn't build the city?
This is where the golden Rhino was discovered.
What is a royal grave on Mapungubwe Hill?
This is how Zimbabwe's social classes differed from other pre-colonial South African societies.
What is the major distinctions in classes were based on religion?
This was when Great Zimbabwe was colonized.
What is the late 1800s-1900s?
Great Zimbabwe bordered this coast.
What is the Swahili coast?
This was one indicator of a man’s success in society.
What is the number of wives he had?
Christianity introduced this to Zimbabwe culture.
What is looking to God for rainmaking?
This was the wealthiest person in the tribe.
Who was the Chief?
Professor Feliz Chami found this at the Rhapta site.
What is pottery?
Members of the upper class lived here.
What is the Hill complex?
The Zimbabwe people believed their ancestors were important for the land because of this.
What is their ancestors ensured the fertility of the land?
The King claimed to receive authority to govern from them. (European kings received divine right from God while Zimbabwe kings received authority from them.)
What are the spirits of deceased rulers?
Chirikure believed that this type of trade in Great Zimbabwe is often overemphasized by historians.
What is worldwide trade?
This architectural element was included in the Great Zimbabwe ruins in order to keep the classes separate.
What are many passageways?
This was a religious requirement for noble status in Great Zimbabwe.
What is proof his ancestors connected with God?
This was the group that ruled over the hereditary monarchy.
What is the Shona elite?
These items demonstrated that Great Zimbabwe engaged in either worldwide or internal trade. (List one item and which trade it proved)
Worldwide trade: What is a Ming dynasty teapot, a Persian pot inscribed with Arabic script, glass from Syria, or cowrie shells from the Indian Ocean?
Internal trade: What are cross-shaped copper ingots, metal gongs, or cattle bones?