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SYMHC Classics: Great Zimbabwe

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Richard Nicklin Hall's Death

British South Africa Company hired David Randall McIver to investigate. His verdict was that the ruins at Great Zimbabwe quote are unquestionably African in every detail and belonging to a period which is fixed by foreign imports as, in general, medieval. So, this was in 1905. It was after Europeans had thought that Great Zimbabwe was a biblical city built by someone not from Sub-Saharan Africa for hundreds of years. And it was a Phoenician city built for the Queen of Shiba for decades.

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