Askia Ishaq II was ruler of the Songhai Empire from 1588 to 1591. Range of the Songhai Empire From the early 15th to the late 16th century, the Songhai Empire was one of the largest African empires in history. ... Events May 12 - Day of the Barricades in Paris. ... Events June - Capture of Zutphen by the Dutch under Maurice of Nassau. ...

Ishaq came to power in a long dynastic struggle following the death of the long-ruling Askia Daoud. Sensing the Empire's weakness, Moroccan Sultan Ahmad I al-Mansur Saadi dispatched a 4,000-man force under the Islamicized Spaniard Judar Pasha across the Sahara desert in October 1590. Though Ishaq assembled more than 40,000 soldiers to meet the Moroccans, his army fled the enemy's gunpowder weapons at the decisive Battle of Tondibi in March 1591; Judar soon seized and looted the Songhai capital of Gao as well as the trading centers of Timbuktu and Djenné, ensuring the Empire's destruction. Askia Daoud (also Askia Dawud) was ruler of the Songhai Empire from 1549 to 1582. ... A sultan (Arabic: سلطان) is an Islamic title, with several historical meanings muslim monarch ruling under the terms of shariah The title carries moral weight and religious authority, as the rulers role was defined in the Quran. ... Ahmad I al-Mansur Saadi (also Ahmed el-Mansour) was Sultan of Morocco from 1578 to his death in 1603, the sixth ruler of the Saadi Dynasty. ... Islam   listen? (Arabic: al-islām) the submission to God is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and the worlds second largest religion. ... Judar Pasha was a military leader of Moroccos Saadi Dynasty and the conqueror of the Songhai Empire. ... The Sahara is the worlds second largest desert (second to Antarctica), over 9,000,000 km² (3,500,000 mi²), located in northern Africa and is 2. ... Events March 14 - Battle of Ivry - Henry IV of France again defeats the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne. ... Gunpowder is a substance which burns very rapidly and is used as a propellant in firearms, specifically either black powder or smokeless powder. ... The Battle of Tondibi was the decisive confrontation in Moroccos sixteenth-century invasion of the Songhai Empire. ... Events June - Capture of Zutphen by the Dutch under Maurice of Nassau. ... GAO may mean: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (formerly General Accounting Office) Golf Association of Ontario Gipuzkoako Aldizkari Ofiziala Grupo de Agricultura Organica This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same... Timbuktu or Timbuctu (Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu, French: Tombouctou) is a city populated by the Songhay, Tuareg, Fulani, and Moorish people in the West African country of Mali. ... The location of Djenné within Mali Djenné (also Dienné or Jenne) is a city on the Bani River in southern Mali with a population of about 12,000 (in 1987). ...

References

• Davidson, Basil. Africa in History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
• Velton, Ross. Mali: The Bradt Travel Guide. Guilford, Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press, 2000.