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Intro to topic · Great Zimbabwe

Prosperous city-state, part of complex and stratified society

Other people's hypothesis · Prosperity was due to gold mining

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Alternative hypothesis · Prosperity was due to agricultural system

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Problem · Crop cultivation could not support large, permanently situated populations

Soil needed breaks between planting, no means of transporting or storing grain

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Solution · Cattle farming

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Evidence for Alt. Hypothesis · Cattle farming was complex

That complexity influenced Great Zimbabwe's social structure

Evidence for alt. hypothesis · Cattle farming gave ruling class extensive power

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Evidence for alt. hypothesis · Cattle farming also supported gold mining industry

Not only was gold mining not the main driver of Great Zimbabwe's prosperity, but gold mining actually owed its success to cattle farming

Passage Style

Critique or debate

Phenomenon-hypothesis (RC)

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The author doesn’t have a negative attitude toward the cattle economy. She never suggests there was anything wrong with its role in allowing centralized control over society.

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The author doesn’t express any surprise about the cattle economy. There’s no point at which she suggest it should have been more diversified or that we would have expected it to be more diversified.

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The author doesn’t have a negative attitude toward the cattle economy. There’s no reason to think the author is skeptical about any aspect of it.

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The author doesn’t criticize the cattle economy in any way.

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This best captures the author’s attitude. The author believes the cattle economy was an important part of its economic system. She spends the bulk of the passage discussing how the cattle economy worked and how it played a role in providing food, marriage, and mining.

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