By about the year 1450, Great Zimbabwe had mostly been abandoned. The reason why isn’t exactly known, but some of the theories include drought, famine, political instability, and the exhaustion of the gold mines. The political balance of power shifted to the Kingdom of Mutapa, which appeare...
Prior to this find, the consensus was that the site was abandoned around 1450. Now the date of abandonment is put later, but raises the unanswered question as to why a Portuguese document from the 1530s refers to the settlement as a ruin. What is evident is that Great Zimbabwe has tremen...
Fortunately, there are signs that a great global warming awakening is starting to emerge. The European Union has abandoned its planned ban on combustion-engine cars, and the G7 has refused to set a date for the elimination of coal from the bloc’s energy systems. Even the so-called world...