Zimbabwe
Many years ago, groups of hunters organized together and lived in the area now known as Zimbabwe. Over time this group of hunters were slowly taken over by a more powerful group of people called the Shona who spoke on of the many Bantu languages. The Shona moved in to Zimbabwe around the time of Christ. They raised livestock and farmed on land that they used the slash and burn technique to clear.By 1500 A.D. Zimbabwe was ruled by the Shona by kings known as Munhumutapa's. These rulers ruled until about the 17th century when Changamire and Rozwi kingdomes threatened their power. The Rozwi kingdom conquiered the Shoni and ruled Zimbabwe for about 100 years. The kingdom lost all o
prior to 1953 zimbabwe was cocidered in three parts, theese three parts were made in to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland by a confrence in Great britan. rganization and plumited leavind small groups of shoni people to rule Zimbabwe. At first the Shoni and settlers that were just passing through. Because of many disagreements of the black population of zimbabwe a civil war broke out in 1972. It started out that the war fare of the british was to strong for the blacks but after years of fighting zimbabwe finnally got its independence in 1987. The shoni peaoples were no match for the heavily soldiers. European rule over Zimbabwe expired in 1914 although the British agreed that they should extent the period for another 10 year, so they did for a while till the british government retained the right to extend the ruling so zimbabwe had to vote on whether it shoud be a self-governed country or be added in to south africa as land. Zimbabwe was made in to a self-governed country in the British Empire. Even when white settlers came through they had no problem. In 1894 it was over the white settlers had taken control of Zimbabwe and was taxing the shoni peoples and also using them as slaves. Later the Ndebele moved in to help establish a better ruling with the Shoni peoples. Since blacks could not vote the countrie was voted to be self governed in 1923. the Federation only last for 10 years because of the disagreeing of the people, therefore in 1963 the federation was terminated. The blacks regained control over Zimbabwe after many years and then it was time to set up government and work on managing people who had gone through years of war and fighting over there home.
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