Great Zimbabwe National Monument - Journey in Africa - Travel & Discover
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- čas přidán 9. 04. 2018
- The ruins of Great Zimbabwe - the capital of the Queen of Sheba, according to an age-old legend - are a unique testimony to the Bantu civilization of the Shona between the 11th and 15th centuries. The city, which covers an area of nearly 80 ha, was an important trading centre and was renowned from the Middle Ages onwards.
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Over the years, I've watched as many documentaries on Great Zimbabwe that I can. The narration and visuals in this one are undoubtedly the best. Even the discussion of the aesthetics of the site is masterful. Thank you so much. ♥️
Thank you very much to you. We must confess that gathering information has been a bit more difficult than other places. Thanks again.
This structure looks like the Dun Telve broch in Scotland and the nuraghe structures in Sardinia. No one will ever know who built but it certainly was not the people currently living in Zimbabwe.
So it does not matter that there are people still living in these precolonial towns that are belt in great Zimbabwe way domboshawa and nyahokwe and to put salt on the wound there more than 500+ of these partially ruined great Zimbabwe belt cities and towns. Heck at the site you will find a community of native inhabitants still living there is it not part of the thumb nail.
@@shanewalkingdead8258 there are more Europeans than indigenous indians living currently in Mexico. Does that mean that Caucasians built the pyramids? Keep on dreaming!!!!!
@@chandnikumarov4459 so you decide to ignore everything i said and have the most retarded answer so far. You always try to dehumanize us the question here is are you really white , white passing offspring Roach go concentrate on being hitlers left over concentration camp left over filth. Everything you do is to dehumanize us you make it seem like we couldn't accomplish a feet equivalent to farming, fire making and making tools we are not animals we are people . Drystone walling is scattered everywhere across central and Southern Africa there are volumes of encyclopedias made with every recorded megalithic structure and the specific tribes they belong to.
@@shanewalkingdead8258 dry stone walling is scattered all over Mexico and Central and South America. Did negroes build those also?
Something doesn’t add up. The inhabitants seem like they’re barely in the 20th century much less 21st.
The music is very distracting.
Thank you - as a pagan it's so good to see how fellow pagans in Africa still follow the Old Ways of venerating the Ancestors and being in harmony with nature. As stone can't be dated, it's impossible to tell how old these structures are. They may have been re-built many times over for all that anyone knows. It's interesting that granite, which has various scientific properties, was used extensively here too. Great Zimbabwe appears to have been an important part of the prehistoric network of stone circles, pyramids and standing stones which covers the surface of the earth.
They date the wood that was used to make the foundations of these stone walls e.g great Zimbabwe, khami
@@shanewalkingdead8258 At a certain time the structures were rebuilt on top of what was there previously. This would be in line with the way successive civilizations around the world have always done things. For example, Archaeologists have "dated" many very ancient ruins using carbon dating, where this is possible - in those renovated/repaired sections of the construction where the builders used mortar to join the stones together for example. Yet the megalithic part of the structures, which is much older, does not have mortar to join the stones firmly in place, because the ancient builders did not need to use any. Indeed, their craftsmanship was far superior to that of the later inhabitants of the area, who did not possess the high level of skill and technology to accomplish such works. They would only be able to build onto the older existing structures, using smaller stones.
As the idea of any previous Age of Civilization is scary for some people to contemplate, they will simply ignore the older stonework, which cannot be dated, and tell us that the structures were built by the most recent inhabitants of the area, based on their dating of the more recent building work only. It's much more convenient to just fit into the current paradigm relating to the actual history of the human race, and besides which, the archaeologist can keep his or her job.
it's not prehistoric, portuguese explorers recorded it while it was inhabited as being he then the capital
@@blessingmasawi3616 The thing is that stone can't be dated - so like so many other standing stones or alignments and monuments such as stonehenge for example, it only means that the stone has been around for a much longer time than when whomever "discovered" it.
Beautiful
Was there once couldn't finish seeing the whole site in 2 days
that music is so distracting. would of been so much better without that noise
this video was ok but the music almost made it impossible to watch the video😕
Finally a video that shows more than the Great Enclosures. I barely see the small ruins that sorround the site. I also noticed brazilian music, the samba, but I can't hear it well. Though european DNA is bigger in most of brazilians, african music is our symbol.
whats the song at the begining called?
Why is your background music not Zimbabwean that's rubbish
why the mousic
The distant ancestors were responsable for building awesome structures all over the world.This contradicts the current narrative of progress promoted by evolutionists and matetialistic godless philosophy.
Não entendo nada sou brasileira 😞
King solomoni Temple ruins. History has been distorted. People from Great Zimbabwe are Hibru people. History have re written 1900s. People wake up.
It's got nothing to do with hebrews. It's 100% Shona culture. Our God is Mwari
Queen Sheeba a Zimbabwean🤔?
A relic of colonial propaganda. Because they couldn't believe that natives build it
"Queen of Sheeba" rubbish
To determine who built the place there are a number of questions. Have they found any human remains at the site? Are there any Iron melting sites found in the area? What ceramic tradition evidence were found at the site?
Archaeologists generally agree that the builders probably spoke one of the Shona languages, but based upon evidence of pottery, oral traditions and anthropology and were probably descended from the Gokomere culture.
Let’s test you assumption. The Gokomere culture could most likely be Khoisan as well. Khoisan lived in Southern Africa - archaeological finds support it. Look at the finding they made earlier this year in Malawi. I think a lot of people tend to forget that the Khoisan was not a lot of pushovers. Khoisan tribes were quite capable to defend themselves. Unfortunately, extreme climate change open up the Tsetse fly belt. Weaken Khoisan tribes were gradually replaced by south moving Bantu tribes over centuries. Look at the DNA makeup of Bantu tribes today. Bantu tribes only moved into the area after 1000. This is supported by first iron melding sites was discovered on the Zambezi river. It dated after 1000. If you look at the Zimbabwe ruins architecture, you quite similar to those you find in Yemen buildings during the Rasulid dynasty. Most likely these Arabs traders and slaves built it. The Tahiride replaced the Rasulid dynasty in late 1400 century. They did not maintain southern trade routes. During this same period Southern Africa experienced a megadrought. Arab traders abandon Zimbabwe due to unprofitability. No ivory and not capable to support slave workers. They abandon area and their slaves. Interesting you find some male Arab DNA found in Lemba tribe. This tribe are metalworkers. They have Semitic customs and traditions. In the 15 centuries, the Portuguese found Zimbabwe ruins. There is no support that the Shona people-built Zimbabwe or any other buildings. If they were, they would probably continue with the architectural trend. I would say the Yemen traders built it in 13 centuries - but abandon it after the dynasty change over.
@@willemvanaswegen1937 archaeologist have studied the ruins and artifacts found at G Z since the late 19th century and not one of them has found any evidence that foreigners built it. Gertrude Caton Thompson did extensive excavations on the site and came to the conclusion that every thing about it shows that it was built by Africans. There is no evidence to support a suggestion that people from Yemen migrated into Zimbabwe and built a settlement. Yemen is not the only civilization to build in that style. Kuelap fortress in Peru is built on the same style. Do you think the Yemenites made it all the way to South America and built there settlements?
There are over a million stone circles ruins in South Africa called the Bakoni ruins which show that Africans had been using stone as building materials for centuries. There's also the Ziwa ruins in Nyanga, the Engaruka terraces in Tanzania, Thimlich Ohinga in Kenya, Khami ruins and so many more. Those people operated a lucrative trade network, and were skilled in masonry and iron smelting and were ingenious enough to build their own settlements. They were not slaves.
Most societies don't build in the same style their ancestors did. Especially those who have been colonized and have adopted the style of the colonials. Europeans don't build Stonehenge sites, do they? But does that mean foreigners built Stonehenge? Egyptians don't build pyramids anymore. Nor do Ethiopians carve churches out of the mountains like their ancestors did centuries ago. Romans don't build colosseum's, and Greeks don't build Parthenon's. So your point is moot. Societies evolve and devolve and change all the time.
Im sorry willem when white white came to colonise africa everything ironic was taken by them
Why bother with this douche . He only questions anything with African origins, he dosent question anything supposedly build by whites . If we said his cave dwelling ancestors build it he wouldn't question it one bit .
Marduk, Enki son blew a hole in the wall
when "outsiders" built these so called "enclosures" homo-sapiens did not exist yet they've nammed APZU the continent which today we know as africa Africa
ps : read Zecharia Sitchin's books : )