Zimbabwean plateau

The Zimbabwean plateau is a high plateau in southern Africa between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers, rich in gold and suited to cattle herding. It was the setting of Great Zimbabwe and later of the Mutapa and Rozvi states. Accounts of the Rozvi Empire describe how its rulers controlled access to the gold-producing regions of the plateau, until Nguni invasions in the nineteenth century destroyed the state.