Hassan II of Morocco because of Moroccan claims on the country (see Great Morocco). Economically, Hassan II adopted a market-based economy, where agriculture, tourism, and phosphates mining industries played a major role. The period from the 1960s to the late 1980s was labelled as the "years of lead" and saw thousands of dissidents jailed, killed, exiled or forcibly disappeared. King Hassan II had extended many parliamentary functions by the early 1990s and released hundreds of political prisoners in 1991, and allowed the Alternance, where the opposition assumed power, for the first time in the Arab World. He set up a Royal Council for Human
Ascend the Hill Ascend the Hill announced a final US tour beginning and ending in their hometown of Tampa, Florida. The band commenced as a musical entity in 2008, with their first release, "Ben Davis", as Ben Davis, an extended play, that released Independently in 2008. They released a studio album, Ascend the Hill, on June 21, 2009, with Come&Live! Records. Their subsequent studio album, "Hymns: Take the World, but Give Me Jesus", was released by Come&Live! Records, on September 14, 2010. The next album, "O Ransomed Son", came out on April 17, 2012 by Come&Live! Records. Ascend the Hill Ascend the Hill,