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on moodle || == **12/1** == || 12/1 || of Africa || on paper
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 * == **1. Africa Chapter Walk** == || == ==
 * == **2. 5.1 Study Guide** == || == [[file:5.1 geog Africa.doc]] == || == **12/1** == || 12/1 ||
 * == **3. Political and Physical maps** ==

|| == **12/1** == || 12/1 || //Omar Diagne completed the quiz for Sahara Desert.// //Sahara Desert 1344 SAS® Curriculum Pathways®//
 * == 4. SAS Sahara Acitivity == || **sas Sahara quiz**

//NAME: Omar Diagne CLASS: Mrs. Miller DATE: 12/1/2010Copyright © 2010, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA, All Rights Reserved Page 1 of 1// || ==12/2== || 12/1 || media type="custom" key="7762437" Section 6.3.2 Askia the Great :
 * == **5. 5.2 Mini Poster/Prezi** == || == == || == **12/3** == || 12/3 ||
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Sunni Ali died in 1942. the leader of the people rebellion was Muhammad Ture. he took the title f Askia a title of high military rank. after he was known as __**Askia the great**__. Like Mansa Musa the ruler of Mali Askia the great took his Muslim faith very seriously. after he defeated Sunni Baru Askia made a pilgrimage to Mecca just as Mansa Musa had 200 years earlier. Askia also worked to support education. the city contained universities, schools, libraries, and mosques. especially famous for the university of Sankore. people from the west went there to study math, science, medicine, grammar, and law. Djenne became the center of learning especially for medicine. they discovered that mosquitoes spread malaria. they also performed eye surgery. Timbuktu and Djenne were the center of learning, but they were also trading center. merchants from distant lands came to these cities and to Gao.Askia the great, himself a devout Muslim, encouraged to the growth in Islamic influence. he removed local leaders and appointed new governors who were loyal to him.one such governor ran the empire Askia when he was away on pilgrimage to Mecca.