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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

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Phenomenon-hypothesis (RC)

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Not supported, because the author explains in P2 that the cattle economy is what allowed Great Zimbabwe to have such a large population.

11%

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Not supported, because we don’t know whether the system was mainly practiced at lower or higher elevations. The author mentions different elevations, but doesn’t mention whether cattle grazed more at one elevation than another.

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Not supported, because the author indicates that the cattle economy “favored a pattern of centralized control over society.” Cattle were the property of a ruling class. This suggests that there were some political controls involved in the cattle economy.

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Supported by the last paragraph.

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Not supported. The author never suggests the cattle system affected anything about the intensitive of crop cultivation.

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