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Information about the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, as well as rock painting dating back 30,000 years.
http://gorp.away.com/gorp/location/africa/zimbabwe/greatzim.htm
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Great Zimbabwe
Description of the lost civilization of Great Zimbabwe, east of the Kalahari Desert, between the
Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers.
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/Africa/GreatZimbabwe.html
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Songhay
Brief discussion of the Songhay people at Civilizations in Africa.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/SONGHAY.HTM
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The Mwenemutapa (Great Zimbabwe)
Overview of one of the first of the centralized states in southeastern Africa and part of the
Bantu-speaking culture.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/MWEN.HTM
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Ife
Discussion of early Yoruba city-state, with Ife trade routes, portrait heads, and false kings.
http://web-dubois.fas.harvard.edu/dubois/baobab/narratives/ife/Ife_Intro.html
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The Swahili Kingdoms
Short discussion of Swahili civilizations at Civilizations in Africa.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/SWAHILI.HTM
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City Plan of Ife
Map and information on the City of Ife, from the Harvard University Baobab Project.
http://baobab.harvard.edu/gis/WestAfricanCity/Ife/ifecity.html
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The World of the Mande
History, art and ritual in the Mande culture, including discussions of caste and class, roles, and
cosmogony.
http://www.fandm.edu/departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/man.html
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Christians in Ethiopia
The beginning of Christianity in the Kingdom of Aksum and its subsequent spread throughout
Ethiopia.
http://www.unesco.org/whc/exhibits/afr_rev/africa-l.htm
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Axum
Brief history of Axum and the Aksumites, located in the Ethiopian highlands near the Red Sea.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/AXUM.HTM
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African Empires
A timeline from 1st - 15th centuries AD/CE, from Central Oregon Community College.
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline2.htm
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