Ancient African Civilization
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The Rozvi Empire, also known as the Rozvi State, was a kingdom established by Changamire Dombo and that existed from about 1684 to 1834. It was the greatest state in Zimbabwe from the late 17th to the early 19th centuries built with stones.

Changamire Dombo was a relative of the Munhumutapa and was one of the local Shona leaders. He gained the title Changamire (lord) and an effective army known as the Rozvi, that, by the 1670s, became a major force in the northeast of the Zimbabwean plateau. https://twitter.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1308814487361814528?s=19

The Rozvi empire emerged from the Mutapa empire as Dombo defeated the Portuguese, driving them out from their key marketplaces in the Zambezi Valley.
Mining of minerals however, especially gold mining, continued. The gold was traded for luxury imports. https://twitter.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1297941957898121218?s=19

The area of the Rozvi Empire covered parts of present day Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa. The capital of the empire was at Butua in the Southwest. The economic power of the Rozvi Empire was based on cattle.

The empire was defeated by the Ndwandwe armies of Nxaba and Zwangendaba. In the early 1830s the last Rozwi ruler was killed in his capital of Khami, resulting in the collapse of the empire.

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