Trade in East Africa
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• Cities developed along this route to protect it• Swahili was a trade language that developed• Swahili is a mix of many different languages
Zimbabwe
• Means great house of stone• Thrived on raising cattle, exporting gold, slaves
and ivory• The Great Enclosure was the most famous
stone structure in Zimbabwe• Was abandoned in the 1450s
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