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__ Why great Zimbabwe Fell and what we can learn from it By Sam Dent __ Any Civilization with a unsustainable resource might thrive at first but will eventually die .If it is overused, there will be no way for the civilization to stay a float. This is the case for Great Zimbabwe. The population grew, the resources were overused, and the civilization just couldn’t keep up. The things that made Zimbabwe wealthy were not sustainable. Mining is not an unlimited resource. When A civilization thrives off resources that will eventually run out, then the civilization will decline and fall eventually.

Trade was a significant factor in great Zimbabwe’s wealth. Great Zimbabwe mined gold, and the trade of gold i could have possibly been a big factor in Great Zimbabwe’s prosperity. Other trading items were iron, copper, tin and also cawrie shells. This will bring a civilization great wealth at first but then these resources will eventually run out, or lose their wealth for trade and then the civilization will die. One theory for the decline of great Zimbabwe is that the gold resource trade declined.

Great Zimbabwe relied on cattle. There was plenty of cattle at first, but it was overused. The small settlement grew to approximately 1800 inhabitants. With this many people, the amount of cattle just cant keep up in order to feed that population.

Great Zimbabwe grew food from their land and hunted wildlife. When Great Zimbabwe Became the size that it was, but they still used the land. The Land just couldn’t keep up to the over polluted civilization. Yes, the growing land was fine farmland, but then it just got overused.

This Civilization grew and grew. Unfortunately the mined resources cant keep on sustaining and the cattle population can’t grow and sustain at this rate. The civilization got overpopulated and they were forced to move out. Now let’s take a look at our current civilization that we live in. Our lifestyle relies on unsustainable energy and oil which is running out. If we sustain our civilization off unsustainable resources like Great Zimbabwe, our Civilization will eventually deline and die. Our Population is up to over 6 billion people. Right now it doesn’t seem like a huge problem, we don’t feel like we see the effects in our everyday lives. But look at the going up of oil prices as well as other things going up. Now look at the recession. If we don’t change our ways, or figure out a sustainable solution, will our civilization die? We, as a people, need to change our habits, as well as our government. Great Zimbabwe decline and was abandoned. Unfortunately we don’t have another planet we can move the people of the world to. What our current civilization can learn from the civilization of great Zimbabwe is that we cannot sustain a civilization off unsustainable resources.

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