Tributary network · approximate1100 – 1450 · 350 years

Kingdom of Zimbabwe

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe was a Shona kingdom located in modern-day Zimbabwe. Its capital was Great Zimbabwe, the largest stone structure in precolonial Southern Africa, which had a population of 10,000. Around 1300, Great Zimbabwe replaced Mapungubwe as the most important trading centre in the interior, exporting gold via Swahili city-states into the Indian Ocean trade. At Great Zimbabwe's centre was the Great Enclosure which is thought to have housed royalty and had demarcated spaces for rituals, while commoners surrounded them within the second perimeter wall. The Zimbabwe state was composed of over 150 smaller zimbabwes and likely covered 50,000 km2 (19,000 sq mi).

Wikipedia: Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Tributary network

A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps
SNAPSHOT1300
POLITY TYPEtributary

Wars of this empire2

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Mutapa-Zimbabwe Wars1350–1420
Major conflict
Great Zimbabwe Wars1100–1450
Significant

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1100 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Kingdom of Zimbabwe (1100 – 1450). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/kingdom-of-zimbabwe · Sources & methodology