In addition , farming had worn out the soil , and people had used up the salt and timber . The area could no longer support a large population (Bech et al , 380 . By 1500 , Great Zimbabwe dominated the Zambezi Valley both militarily and commercially (the Mwenemutapa empire because of this , the new ideas about divine kingship spread throughout the valley and changed the social structures of most of the Bantu people living there . Great Zimbabwe was so far inland that it never...











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