Zimbabwe Flashcards
official name
Republic of Zimbabwe
capital city
Harare
Independence
18 April 1980
president
Emmerson Mnangagwa
flag
green yellow red black red yellow green horizontally with a white flag on the left and a red star behind the golden bird
when — first encountered—…
When Europeans first encountered the Great Zimbabwe Kingdom in the 16th century, they refused to believe that Native Africans built such a civilization
the Great Zimbabwe Monument
was constructed between the 11th and 14th centuries by the indigenous Shona People
the monument is testament to
the ancient African civilisation that existed before colonisation
In the monument, there were
a series of cultural artefacts, including soapstone bird carvings, each known as the Zimbabwe Bird
The artworks were
pillaged and sent to museums across Europe
who took some of the stone-carved birds to South Africa
American coloniser, Cecil John Rhodes
were the birds returned
four were returned in 1981, a year after Zimbabwe gained its independence
a part of one of the birds
ended up in the hands of a German missionary
what did the German do with it
sold it to the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, 1907
The museum finally handed back the piece to Zimbabwe in
2003
The iconic Zimbabwe Bird is
an emblem of the country, appearing on the national flag and coat of arms
how many languages does Zimbabwe have
16 official languages
It once held the Guinness World Record for
the country with the most official languages
The official languages are
Chewa, Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Khoisan, Nambya, Ndau, Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, sign language, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda and Xhosa
it has the world’s greatest
sheet of falling water, the Mosi-oa-Tunya/ Victoria Falls
The waterfall was named after
Queen Victoria by Scottish explorer David Livingstone
Mosi-oa-Tunya mean
“the smoke that thunders” in the Kololo and Lozi languages
Victoria Falls is
one of the seven wonders of the natural world
where is the waterfall located
in Zimbabwe and Zambia
waterfall height and width
it stands at an altitude of about 915 metres above mean sea level (a.m.s.l.) and is 1,708 metres wide
it has the largest
man-made lake and reservoir in the world by volume
the lake lies
1300km upstream from the Indian Ocean and along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe
size of lake
2276 km long and up to 40 km wide in some places
the lake/reservoir provides
electricity to both Zambia and Zimbabwe
