True. It was probably written two or three decades after Jesus died, and a few decades before the last gospel, the Gospel of John, was written. Mark the shortest and simplest of the four gospels, and also the one with the most miracle stories, and scholars have been able to determine that it was written first partly by analyzing the ways in which the other three gospels (Matthew, Luke, and John) borrowed information from the Gospel of Mark.
<span>The northern Sudanese demanded that the southern Sudanese convert to Islam.
Northern Islamic leaders ruled Sudan under Islamic law and those living in the South were Christian and animistic faiths. The beginning of Islamic law started a civil war as the South was ready to be independent from Islamic law. </span>