Zimbabwe

Great Zimbabwe traded with and influenced these faraway cultures:

• Arabia and India

• China and America

• France and Mexico

• Arabia and the Viking homeland

What factors may have led to Great Zimbabwe's decline?

• invaders from India

• overcrowding

• they lost a great deal of money

• fire

The people of Mapungubwe moved to__________?

• Mozambique

• Zimbabwe

• Botswana

• Pretoria

Why did the people chose the site at Great Zimbabwe?

• The site was closer to where diamonds were mined.

• It was higher than the Limpopo Valley.

• The site was in an area with good rains and rivers

Name the three big settlements in Great Zimbabwe

• Hill complex

  Valley complex

  The great enclosure

• Hill complex

  Valley Limpopo complex

  The great enclosure

• Hill complex

  Valley complex

  The bad enclosure

• Hill Valley complex

  Valley complex

  The small enclosure

The Great Enclosure was an egg-shaped area surrounded by two sets of high walls.

• True

• False

At Great Zimbabwe, the cattle were kept for their meat rather than for their milk.

• True

• False

Zimbabwe were a centre of _____ and _____trade.

• Gold

  Silver

• Ivory

  Beads

• Gold

  Ivory

• Glassware

  Ivory

Cecil John Rhodes named this country Rhodesia.

• True

• False

In what year did people first settle at Great Zimbabwe?

• They settled here in 1300 AD/CE

• They settled here in 1210 AD/CE

• They settled here in 1400 AD/CE

• They settled here in 1280 AD/CE