The Great Zimbabwe period was the era of the Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe's rise as the capital of a powerful trading state in south-eastern Africa, marked by the construction of the massive dry-stone enclosures that give the site its name and by trade networks reaching the Indian Ocean coast.
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Start YearSources date the rise to capital status only to the century, the 13th; 1220 is used as a representative year within it. End YearMajor stone construction ran from the 11th to 15th centuries and the site was not fully abandoned until the 16th or 17th century; 1450 marks the end of the kingdom's major building and imperial power rather than final abandonment. Geographic ScopeSouth-eastern Africa, in the hills of what is now south-eastern Zimbabwe near Masvingo. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Great Zimbabwe
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Great Zimbabwe was a city in the south-eastern hills of the modern country of Zimbabwe, near Masvingo.
1. Wikipedia: Great Zimbabwe
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Major construction on the city began in the 11th century until the 15th century, and it was abandoned in the 16th or 17th century.
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