Mwanamutapa History of Southern Africa Matabele






History of the Changamire Kingdom



The CHANGAMIRE KINGDOM split off MWANAMUTAPA around 1490. Although GREAT ZIMBABWE was allocated to Changamire, Changamire long stood in the shadow of it's northern neighbour Mwanamutapa.
The Mwanamutapa gold trade declined, and from the 1750es on both Swahili and Portuguese traders were more interested in another commodity - African slaves. The Shona kingdoms were targetted by slave raiders.
In the 1820es the Matabele, under MZILIKAZI, split off the Zulu, migrated into modern Zimbabwe, where they conquered the Changamire Kingdom and subdued the Shona people.






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FILES 		Links to the History of Zimbabwe, from Looksmart
History of Zimbabwe, from Infoplease
History of Zimbabwe, from Discovery Channel's A to Z Geography
History of Mocambique, from Infoplease (period of early Portuguese rule closely related to Mwanamutapa)
DOCUMENTS Image of Great Zimbabwe, from zimweb
S. Africa Map featuring Changamire, 1827, from Univ. of Florida (Lizars Edinburgh Geographical General Atlas)
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First posted in 2001, last revised on November 7th 2004

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