The Great Zimbabwe Empire | Visiting Ancient African Royal Palaces

The Great Zimbabwe Empire was one the great black empires to exist in ancient times. In this video, I visit the ancient ruins of this empire which consists of the King’s palace, the Queen’s palace, and smaller structures of royal family member’s houses. What amazed me about this site is that the most impressive building of this ancient city was the Queen’s palace. This was to show how honored she was in society. This is black history at its finest. This is one of many great African kingdoms that was never taught to us in school.
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0:00 - Intro
0:48 - Overview of Great Zimbabwe Empire
2:23 - Meeting the tour guides
3:50 - Map of Great Zimbabwe Ruins
4:23 - Kingdom of Mapungubwe & the Origins of Great Zimbabwe
5:47 - Ancient Path leading up to the King's Palace
6:56 - The King's 200 wives and 2,000 children
7:45 - The Queen's Palace measurements – Quick view of the The Great Enclosure
9:05 - Path
10:10 – Great Zimbabwe was heavily fortified and hard to invade
11:17 - Overlooking the landscape
11:45 - The King's Palace at Great Zimbabwe
13:33 - The Kings Palace's were burned after the death of each king
14:57 - Ancient kitchen
15:21 - Europeans destroyed the palace looking for gold
15:50 - Soap Stone Carved Birds & Ancient Artifacts
17:21 - Ancient religions of Africa & Great Zimbabwe
18:10 - Carved Stones and comparing it to Macchu Picchu
19:09 - The Valley Complex and where the King's wives lived
20:09 - The Queen's Palace; The Great Enclosure
22:13 - Colonization government hiding evidence that africans built Great Zimbabwe
23:28 - The conical Tower
24:13 - Why the Great Zimbabwe Empire collapsed
26:01 - The legacy of Great Zimbabwe
27:17 - End of tour and final thoughts
29:36 - Outro


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