Tham khảo tài liệu 'mastering skills for the toefl ibt part 5', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Mastering-Books_5 2 13 PM Page 733 the disease differed from those typical of bubonic plagues. For these reasons some researchers are now proposing other diseases as the cause such as pulmonary anthrax or the Ebola virus. Q4 practice 3 W I trust that you ve all read in your textbooks that the Great Zimbabwe civilization was founded around the year 450 by ancestors of modern-day Shona speakers. This however has not always been the accepted interpretation of the archaeological evidence. After the British discovery of the ruins British Imperialist officials became concerned. You see the idea of a black civilization undermined the justification behind British Imperialism namely that whites were superior and that it was their duty to civilize other savage peoples. Government officials commissioned a number of British archaeologists including Bent and Hall to investigate the site. Unfortunately these men destroyed and plundered much of the ruins and officially concluded that the civilization had been built by foreigners from the north. Fortunately however archaeologist Randall-MacIver investigated the site in 1905 and her findings contradicted the earlier theories. The British Empire responded by banning archaeologists from the site for nearly 25 years The racist myth about the ruins was not fully dispelled until Zimbabwe s independence in 1980. Sample response The lecture discusses the rewriting of the history of the Great Zimbabwe civilization during the British Colonial period. The reading details the conclusions based on archaeological evidence. This evidence points to native Shona-speaking Africans as the founders of the civilization that boasted cities royalty and a monumental wall. British officials on the other hand put forth an official view that the civilization must have been built by foreigners from the north. Their hired archaeologists destroyed evidence and supported racist theories to justify imperialist ventures. Finally after Zimbabwe gained .
