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Great Zimbabwe and the Coastal Cities
In the Shona language, Zimbabwe means
"houses of stone" or "honored houses".
(Zimbabwe's flag)
Zimbabwe was built of huge granite rocks.
Great Zimbabwe was abandoned
by the late 1400s.
The 3 important trading cities in the Swahili civilization were Zanzibar, Mombasa, and Mogadishu.
Swahili means "people of the shore" in Arabic. The Swahili people lived along Africa's east coast.
The Swahili are members of many different groups that live along East Africa's coast.
Swahili is the
native language for approximately 2 million people in East Africa, but more than 20 million Africans use it regularly.
Each different group speaks its own dialect of Swahili.
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