Middle AgesGovernment & Law Great Zimbabwe c. 1100Major A stone city in southern Africa, capital of a gold-trading kingdom. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → First fired clay figures → First pottery → Potter's wheel → The wheel → Spoke-wheeled chariot → Hittite Empire → Iron Age begins → Iron smelting south of the Sahara → Iron Age farmers reach southern Africa → Great Zimbabwe Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentmetmuseum.orgGreat Zimbabwe (11th to 15th century) (Met Museum) ↗Editor's pickDocumentwhc.unesco.orgGreat Zimbabwe National Monument (UNESCO) ↗Editor's pickBookPeter GarlakeGreat Zimbabwe ↗Editor's pickBookShadreck ChirikureGreat Zimbabwe: Reclaiming a 'Confiscated' Past ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeGreat Zimbabwe history documentary ↗Editor's pick