SYMHC Classics: Great Zimbabwe
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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🗓️ 29 April 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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This 2017 episode covers Great Zimbabwe, a massive stone city in southeastern Africa that was a thriving trade center from the 11th to 15th centuries. When Europeans learned of it in the 16th century, they were certain it wasn't African at all.
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| 0:00.0 | The stuff they don't want you to know, podcast, explores the world of the unexplained. |
| 0:05.8 | Now host Ben, Matt, and Noel are returning to I Heartland on Roblox for a special event |
| 0:10.7 | at State Farm Park to dig into one of the wackiest conspiracy theories ever that the Earth |
| 0:16.0 | is flat. |
| 0:17.0 | So be there starting Thursday, April 27th at 7pm Easter, as the guys celebrate Earth Day |
| 0:22.4 | by debunking every flatter theory on the globe. |
| 0:25.5 | Plus, don't forget to ride the Ferris Wheel at the State Farm neighborhood for the best |
| 0:29.0 | views of I Heartland. |
| 0:31.0 | Happy Saturday! |
| 0:34.4 | Since Great Zimbabwe was one of the episodes that got a quick update in our latest installments |
| 0:40.1 | of Unearthed, we thought we would bring it out as today's Saturday Classic. |
| 0:44.9 | This episode originally aired on January 18th, 2017. |
| 0:49.1 | Enjoy! |
| 0:52.6 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:58.9 | Hello and welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:05.6 | I am Tracy V. Wilson and I'm Holly Fry. |
| 1:09.2 | We touched really, really, really, really briefly on today's topic way back when we did our |
| 1:13.9 | condensed history of Rhodesia. |
| 1:16.6 | It is Great Zimbabwe, which is a huge stone city in what's now southeastern Zimbabwe, |
| 1:22.1 | and it's been on my to-do list for that entire time. |
| 1:26.4 | We also recently, I'm not quite sure if the letters were from the same person or if |
| 1:31.7 | people were just copying and pasting the same text, but we got multiple identical requests |
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