Who built Great Zimbabwe? And why? - Breeanna Elliott
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Stretched across a tree-peppered expanse in Southern Africa lies the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, a medieval stone city of astounding wealth. Located in the present-day country of Zimbabwe, it’s the site of the second largest settlement ruins in Africa. But its history is controversial, defined by decades of dispute about who built it and why. Breeanna Elliott explores the mystery of Great Zimbabwe.
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Still today, much of African history is often clouded by the perspective of non-Africans. Why is it important to explore the past from more than just written records and designate proper ownership of historical and cultural achievements?
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mesut bulut
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It is the most important thing that everybody must know the truth. It is not important that whereever you are talking about, whoever is, who is right, winning or clouding to achieve something. The best heritage that we can hand over our descendents is truth. This is the best for humanity, for future.
Martin Ramirez
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Its important to look for more than written records because written documents don't give us a deep look, sure they might tell the facts and stuff but they don't capture the feel of the location.
Alexis Hernandez
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it good to look back in the past so that you can get the full story about a place and how it came to be
Angelina Duarte
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cause you never know if someone is telling a lie so juts might as well go back into history or old records
allie mcgill
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allie mcgill
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Historical accounts are based of of evidence but racist bias can cloud the truth
Ian Nelson Rascoff
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If you dont dig deeper into the history and only see the surface youll only learn opinions but if you go deeper in the story itll give you facts.
chadai jones
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The study of history is important because it can tell us how we evolved. It can tell us what decisons worked in particular situations in the past and what didn't. This can be useful when taking decisions today in similar situations. We can also take inspirations from certain events to motivate us.The study of history is important because it can tell us how we evolved. It can tell us what decisons worked in particular situations in the past and what didn't. This can be useful when taking decisions today in similar situations. We can also take inspirations from certain events to motivate us. We recognize that protecting culture and
heritage is important to communities and,
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Meggie Cole
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I believe that it is important to explore and understand past historical breakthroughs and give credit where it is due because it is important to know the connections our country has with other places around the world and why.
Alexander McDonald
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It is very important to explore the past from more than just written records because we should understand a deeper truth than what is available at the surface. Some written artifacts may be misleading and written by racists trying to discredit the work of African Indigenous people so it is important to look out for that. It's important we recognize the work done by the Africans and appreciate this great creativity that other people tried to claim.
