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| | Early Medieval Period, Ted Thornton, NMH, Northfield Mount Hermon |
 | | In 756, Abd al-Rahman revived the defeated Umayyad caliphate in Cordoba ushering in a period of great cultural, artistic, scientific, and intellectual advancements marked by unprecedented tolerance among Christians, Jews, and Muslims. |
 | | 807 A rebellion in Toledo was quelled by Amrus Ibn Yusuf, the governor appointed by Caliph al Hakam. |
 | | Amrus employed a tactic we saw before at the expense of the German chieftain, Odoacer, and will see again (with a slight variation): "the great banquet ruse." In what seemed to be a magnanimous peace-making gesture, Amrus invited hundreds of his notable Toledan enemies. |
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