THE ZIMBABWE WALLS
PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRISTOPHER SCOTT
The Great Zimbabwe was a medieval African city that was known for its large circular wall and tower. It was part of a wealthy African trading empire that took most of the control of the East African coast from the 11th to the 15th centuries.
Great Zimbabwe was part of a huge and wealthy global trading network. Archaeologists have found pottery from China and Persia, as well as Arab coins in the remains there. The authorities of the Zimbabwe Empire controlled trade up and down the east African coast. However, the city was largely abandoned by the 15th century as the Shona people tranfered elsewhere. The appropriate reasons for the abandonment are unknown, but it is likely that exhaustion of resources and overpopulation were contributing factors.
The zimbabwe walls were part of a global trading network, which means that a lot of people were involved in it. Why do I know? because trading was a once a very famous trend back then. It helped people build relationships amongst them. We really don't need to ask other people if the people who were involved in the trading network were friends. It is beyond any doyubt that those people were able to develop certain relationships with each other. That is how the walls of zimbabwe affect the relationships between human beings.
But, If I were to choose beetween building bridges or mending walls, It would be the building of bridges. Though not all walls were meant to sparate one person to another from each other but, I would still choose the building of bridges. To me bridges just connect people from other people freely. It's like we have a right to interact with other people, see their faces, connect with them anytime we want. And that is why I choose the building of bridges.
REFERENCES:
Clint P. (March/24/2020) Great Zimbabwe | National Geographic Society
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-zimbabwe/#:~:text=Great%20Zimbabwe%20was%20a%20medieval,to%20the%2015th%20centuries%20C.E.
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