Talk:Munhumutapa Empire

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A much better time frame should be established... --Joy [shallot] 17:58, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The sentence: "Johannesburg is still often referred to a the "city of gold" and in fact it's name in nearly all indigenous languages translates as exactly that (compare Gauteng in Sotho and Egoli in Zulu)." is absolutely nonsence if related to Munhumutapa. You can't related an expression from the 19th and 20th centrury to the medivial age, where this expression did not exist. To win gold in Witwatersrand needs a technological knowledge, which could not exist in that time in Africa. - compare it with the German version here in Wiki.

[edit] Maps

What, no maps?

;>

I wonder where the best sources of GIS maps is for pre-european african states.

Pazouzou 05:11, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling of Empire name for article?

I think that we should choose one spelling of the name and stick with it to simplify things.

--Thefirechild 12:37, 14 August 2006 (UTC).

Please, this is garbage. It was not an Empire. It was a an area where a particular people(s)lived with a very modest 'city' built largely by Arab slave-labourers who had stonemasonry knowledge. There was no central administration or anything remotely like it, no literature or anything else. For 1500 in the rest of the world that is absurd. Don't make such futile attempts to give credit to this lot when it is undeserving. Revisionist history should be kept out of this project. 81.131.57.137 09:22, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Given that older descriptions of Great Zimbabwe and other African archaeological sites have been made in environments of institutionalised racism, disregarding newer research as “revisionism” would be absurd. However, in order to maintain NPOV it would be good if the article covered more perspectives, current and historical. Incidentally, Wikipedia defines masonry as “the building of structures from individual units laid in and bound together by mortar“; Great Zimbabwe (and the two hundred or so lesser zimbabwes) are entirely dry stone. -Ahruman 12:11, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clarification of lists

The article has two lists of "Mwenes or Monomatapas." It looks like those are lists of names of individuals, but I'm just guessing because the article doesn't say what "Mwene" or "Monomatapa" means. Is it some kind of title borne by the rulers of the empire? If so, does "Monomatapa Empire" basically mean something like "Empire of the Emperor"? Someone please clarify. PubliusFL 06:53, 21 March 2007 (UTC)