Rhodesia
Zimbabwe was known as Southern Rhodesia before 1980.
No. What is now Kenya was mostly contained in what was known as British East Africa. Rhodesia became Zimbabwe April 18th 1980.
Zimbabwe was previously known as Southern Rhodesia
The Largest Of These SettleMents Was Known As Great Zimbabwe It Was The Center Of The Shona Empire.
Salisbury was Zimbabwe's capital in those days. It is now known as Harare.
it was known for the big buildings and monuments
It is not known what happened to the Great Zimbabwe civilization.
Rhodesia
The name comes from a Shona word for Great Zimbabwe which is a ruin that was once a city in the 1400s.
Zimbabwe used to be called Southern Rhodesia and Zambia was Northern Rhodesia.
The British Protectorate of Northern Rhodesia is now the Republic of Zambia.Southern Rhodesia is now Zimbabwe.
The country known as Zimbabwe first competed in the Olympics at the 1980 Games in Moscow.