Later, it was taken across the sea to East Africa and may have been taken inland at the time of the Great Zimbabwe civilization.

Parfitt had this artifact radio-carbon dated to about 1350, which coincided with the sudden end of the Great Zimbabwe civilization.

Great Zimbabwe

After the decline of Mapungubwe, Great Zimbabwe rose on the Zimbabwe Plateau.

Great Zimbabwe was the first city in Southern Africa and was the center of an empire, consolidating lesser Shona polities.

These building techniques were enhanced and came into maturity at Great Zimbabwe, represented by the wall of the Great Enclosure.

Great Zimbabwe flourished by trading with Swahili Kilwa and Sofala.

The rise of Great Zimbabwe parallels the rise of Kilwa.

Great Zimbabwe was a major source of gold.

Around the 1420s and 1430s, Great Zimbabwe was on the decline.

This tradition was part of the eastern stream of Bantu expansion ( sometimes called Kwale ) which originated west of the Great Lakes, spreading to the coastal regions of southeastern Kenya and north eastern Tanzania, and then southwards to Mozambique, south eastern Zimbabwe and Natal.

This Kalanaga state further refined and expanded upon Mapungubwe's stone architecture, which survives to this day at the ruins of the kingdom's capital of Great Zimbabwe.

Kathleen Kenyon's first field experience was as a photographer for the pioneering excavations at Great Zimbabwe in 1929, led by Gertrude Caton-Thompson.

* Great Zimbabwe

Samarium-neodymium dating | Sm / Nd isochron dating | isochron plotted of samples from the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe.

The Swahili people had various extensive trading ports dotting the coast of medieval East Africa and Great Zimbabwe had extensive trading contacts with Central Africa, and likely also imported goods brought to Africa through the Southeast African shore trade of Kilwa in modern-day Tanzania.

The Great Rift runs from the Mediterranean along both sides of the Red Sea south through Ethiopia and the lake country of East Africa, gradually disappearing in the area of Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

* Work begins on the Great Enclosure at Great Zimbabwe, built of un-cemented, dressed stone.

* Construction begins on the Great Zimbabwe National Monument, sometime in the century.

* Construction at Great Zimbabwe begins ( approximate date ).

They recorded a wealth of information about the Mutapa kingdom as well as its predecessor, Great Zimbabwe.

According to Swahili traders whose accounts were recorded by the Portuguese historian João de Barros, Great Zimbabwe was an ancient capital city built of stones of marvellous size without the use of mortar.

Great stress is placed on the role that the monitoring of information sending plays in maintaining the effectiveness of the network.

He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical engineer in Great Britain.

Here is truly a `` Great Recording of the Century '', and its greatness is by no means diminished by the fact that it is not quite perfect.

The Great Smoky Mountains is another area of the South well worth a visit.

So it is with Great Expectations, whether the hands be Orlick's as he strikes down Mrs. Gargery or Pip's as he steals a pie from her pantry.

Since they commonly translate thoughts and feelings into deeds, hands naturally represent action, and since nearly half the characters in Great Expectations are of the underworld or closely allied to it, the linking of hands with crime or violence is not to be wondered at.

But only in one of its aspects is Great Expectations a tale of violence, revenge, and retribution.

I am selling the stuff of which is made one of the Great American Dreams -- wall-to-wall carpeting.

As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.

The Great Train Robbery is a one-reel film.

The `` chase '' as a standard film device probably dates from The Great Train Robbery, and there is a reason for the continued popularity of the device.

Aristotle's influence over Alexander the Great is seen in the latter's bringing with him on his expedition a host of zoologists, botanists, and researchers.

In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

Aquarius is identified as " The Great One " in the Babylonian star catalogues and represents the god Ea himself, who is commonly depicted holding an overflowing vase.

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

The United States presidential election of 1932 took place in the midst of the Great Depression that had ruined the promises of incumbent President Herbert Hoover to bring about a new era of prosperity.

The Great Depression ruined the aircraft market, and Detroit Aircraft went bankrupt.

The work depicts the rear of the ruined " Great Stone Church " as well as part of the mission's campo santo.

* The nearby Mont Cavalier is crowned by the Tour Magne (" Great Tower "), a ruined Roman tower.

But the Panic of 1893 dropped land values, and the Great Freeze of 1894-1895 ruined the plantation.

During the great Viking invasion of England opposed by Alfred the Great and various other Saxon and Welsh rulers, the Viking chieftain Hastein in late summer 893 marched his men to Chester to occupy the ruined Roman fortress there.

Standing at the intersection of the Great North Road and the Fosse Way, Newark originally grew around Newark Castle – now ruined – and a large market place – now lined with historic buildings.

It was rebuilt afterwards, but destroyed again in 1703 during the Great Northern War by the Russian army and left in a ruined state.

In 582, Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty sited a new region southeast of the much ruined Han Dynasty Chang ' an to build his new capital, which he called Daxing ( Great Prosperity ).

In 1752 Frederick the Great chartered the Emden Company to trade with Canton, but the company was ruined when Emden was captured by French forces in 1757 during the Seven Years ' War.

He was employed to design and rebuild many of the ruined ancient churches of London following the Great Fire of London.

The family was again prospering when the Great Depression hit in 1929 and ruined them.

Nearly ruined in the Great Depression as many others were, Nast spent his last years struggling to regain his early prosperity.

The high brick wall, reminiscent of that at nearby Woburn, which runs for some distance adjacent to the road, now neglected and ruined in places, surrounds the 70-acre ( 280, 000 m² ) park which once housed the principal seat of the Duncombe family, Great Brickhill Manor.

Whilst Henry IV had shown little interest in the ruined Sheen, his son Henry V ( 1413 – 1422 ) saw its reconstruction as a means of emphasising the dynastic link between his own House of Lancaster and that of Plantagenet, of unquestioned legitimacy, and decided at the same time to found the 3 monasteries pledged by his father all within one great building scheme, known as “ The King's Great Work ”.

Notable buildings in the town include a ruined 13th-century castle, first mentioned in Brut y Tywysogion in 1215, when it was seized by Llewelyn the Great ().

The stained glass windows in the south wall, which are by Lawrence Lee and date from 1949 to 1955, represent lost churches associated with the parish: St Magnus and his ruined church of Egilsay, St Margaret of Antioch with her lost church in New Fish Street ( where the Monument to the Great Fire now stands ), St Michael with his lost church of Crooked Lane ( demolished to make way for the present King William Street ) and St Thomas Becket with his chapel on Old London Bridge.

Early settlers discovered that the Great Plains was not the " Great American Desert ," but they also found that the very harsh climate — with tornadoes, blizzards, drought, hail, floods and grasshoppers — made for a high risk of a ruined crop.

" The Great St. Patrick ’ s Day Flood " submerged the town under 18 feet of water, sweeping away the bridge spanning the Conemaugh and fourteen buildings, while others were ruined or severely damaged.

The stones ( Ammonite fossils ) collected from the bed of the Gandaki River at a place close to Saligrama or Muktinath ( literally meaning " place of salvation ") in the Mustang district of Nepal, it is first mentioned in " Devi Bhagavath " completely if we want to refer puranas, it is as so there was king name Dharmadwaja who was initially a devotee of goddess Lakshmi later became rival of the same & completely ruined but his son Padmadwaja realized his father mistake became a devotee of Lakshmi, pleased to his devotion Lakshmi herself incarnated as Tulasi, later Tulasi fell in deep love with Lord Krsna for which they got married, in order to keep their relation for ever Lord Krsna converted himself as Salagrava ( saligram ) & Tulasi as river Gandaki, even today salagrava are available in gandaki only, later the Great Master Sri Shankaracharya who knew this story told to his disciples that when ever this stones are taken for the purpose of worship one should never worship those shila without tulasi, that is in order to keep the same relation of tulasi & Sri Krsna, he also further says the Tulasi which we use foe worship is hair of that Tulasi who converted into river Gandaki.