3. âą Cities developed along this route to protect it
âą Swahili was a trade language that developed
âą Swahili is a mix of many different languages
5. âą Means great house of stone
âą Thrived on raising cattle, exporting gold, slaves
and ivory
âą The Great Enclosure was the most famous
stone structure in Zimbabwe
âą Was abandoned in the 1450s
Hinweis der Redaktion
Empires developed to protect this profitable trade
Swahili -- 35% are arabic in originAlso some EnglishSwahili made it possible to continue trade
Traded gold, slaves and ivoryâŠTrade from India and China passed through Zimbabwe
Great enclosure built with no mortarâŠcarefully cut and fitted together with precisionSurvived over 700 yearsNot sure why it went into decline and was abandoned.