I believe it was around 400, maybe less. some sources say 200, some go to as high as 600.
Hard to say 100 for the South Wales Borderers and 200 for the Zulus lots of them were reused in different scenes
That would be Gandhi, over 300,000 extras used at the funeral scene.
Although the chief weapons of the Zulu and the Gikyu were the leather shield and short stabbing spear, Zulu tactics from the 1830's on used skirmish lines of gunmen. In the original push south during the Great Trek Zulu skirmishers were armed with trade muskets (short barreled smootbore flintlocks sold through Arab and Portuguese traders via Zanzibar) and the occaisional Jaleel (long barreled flintlocks). During the Zulu war large numbers of Martini Henry 45 rifles were captured and put to use by Zulu rifleman who would give cover to their compatriots massed charges. - Zulu soldiers carried Enfield 1853 rifles with Schyner actions to load cartridges. The Cavalary used a shortened version of this model.
"Do you want to marry me?" in Zulu would be "Uyafuna ukushadanami?" There are about 10 million Zulu speakers in the world, most of whom hail from South Africa.
Zulu Time - or Greenwich Mean Time is just an agreed standard that all other time zones relate to. So rather than a submarine commander having to worry about what time it is in Pearl Harbor and what time in Washington DC - Zulu time as the world standard is used to avoid confusion.
The African language heard in The Lion King soundtrack was the Zulu language.
The Zulu are an ethnic group in South Africa. Goats and lambs are often used by the Zulu as sacrifices to the spirits.
In Zulu, the word "iyaphila" is used to mean divine or godly.
That would be Gandhi, over 300,000 extras used at the funeral scene.
how did the zulu kingdom use the heritage site
That is 'nyama' and it's actually a Bantu word used now by many Africans.
The Zulu shields, like the shields of soldiers or warriors of all other peoples in the world, were used for protection in battle.
Yes. Ridley Scott was a huge fan of the original and added to his movie as an homage. See his credits.
There are a number of phonetic alphabets, but Zulu is used for "Z" in many.
Zulu time is named after the phonetic letter Z used in the NATO phonetic alphabet. It is derived from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and is used in aviation and military operations to avoid confusion with different time zones.
No, the extras would have changed. After all the extras they used as first years in the first film would be 8 years older in the sixth film.
Extras!
Zulu time is also knows as Universal Coordinated Time. It is usually expressed in terms of a 24 hour clock. Zulu time is the primary time standard used by the military.