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Great Zimbabwe's Forgotten Farmers: The Agrarian Revolution
We often think of Great Zimbabwe as a city of stone and gold, but its foundation was agriculture. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the farming practices that sustained the kingdom for centuries: the cultivation of sorghum, millet, and cowpeas, the use of iron hoes and cattle manure, and the ingenious dry-stone terraces that transformed the Zimbabwe Plateau into a breadbasket. They discuss how climate shifts and soil exhaustion may have contributed to the kingdom's decline, and what archaeological evidence—from grain bins to pollen cores—reveals about daily life. Along the way…
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