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Resource 1: Cards for developing fluency with big numbers in history

Anglo-Zulu War

1879

The Battle of Mogadishu

1993

Zambia defeats Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in the Africa Cup of Nations

2012

Tacky’s War

1760

Zanzibar Revolution

1964

Dr Sam Nujoma becomes President of Namibia

1990

Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa

1994

The rise of the Ashanti Kingdom in West Africa

1700

First Sudanese civil war starts

1955

Britain defeats Germany and Italy at El Alamein in Egypt

1942

The second Ivorian civil war starts

2010

The Anglo-Ashanti war starts

1823

First Afro-Asian writers’ conference

1958

The second Italo-Abyssinian war starts

1935

The Arusha Declaration

1967

Nigeria becomes independent

1960

The Entebbe Raid

1976

The USA founds a colony for freed slaves in Liberia

1822

Kenya becomes independent

1963

Ghana becomes independent

1957

South Africa gains a democratic government

1994

Zimbabwe becomes independent

1980

Zambia becomes independent

1964

Mozambique becomes independent

1975