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9. Calling this city "Zimbabwe" is an obvious cheat. In OTL, Great Zimbabwe wasn't built until several centuries later, and there's no reason to expect that an earlier city in a different location (I've done the Zimbabweans a favor by relocating their capital to a river) would have the same name. I'm not familiar enough with Shona naming customs, however -- especially eleventh-century Shona naming customs -- to guess at what the alternate city would be called. I haven't used author's privilege too often in this timeline, so in my opinion I'm entitled.

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