Technology C+ (Rachel)

I gave Great Zimbabwe a C+ for technology because there were not many advancements within their society, compared to other empire's in Africa. Yet one of Zimbabwe's greatest advancements was that they went from the stone age to the iron age this meant they skipped to ages between the stone and iron age. Zimbabwe was a major trade route for caravans carrying good and ideas from distant lands.  Along this route archeologists found spindle whorls used for sewing and weaving.  These whorls gave the people of Zimbabwe the ability to export clothing and rugs to other surrounding countries.
 One of their bigger achievements was fusing metals like iron, copper, and bronze.  They made tools such as axe's, arrow points, knives, and iron shovels. This helped advance them in the work to gold mining which became a major part of their livelihood.
 Archeologist's have also found pieces of clay and soap stone, which can tell us where the people traded and what they traded to other civilizations.They used the soap stone to make carvings of nature such as the native bird in the picture above.  Even though the empire had major advancements they were borrowing idea's from other civilizations not their own. This is why the technology of Zimbabwe deserves a C+.