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For about how many centuries did Muslims rule parts of Iberia?
Answer: Eight
Why: Those 781 years are longer than the whole stretch from Columbus's first voyage to the end of the 21st century.
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For about how many years was Córdoba a caliphate?
Answer: About 100
Why: Córdoba's Umayyads had already ruled as emirs since 756; the caliph title only came in 929.
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Who was both a Hebrew poet and army chief of Muslim Granada?
Answer: Samuel ha-Nagid
Why: Granada's Alhambra hill once held his own 11th-century palace, long before the Nasrids built there.
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Which Frankish leader beat an army from al-Andalus in 732?
Answer: Charles Martel
Why: Charlemagne was his grandson, born at least a decade after the battle of 732.
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In what year did Spain start expelling its Moriscos?
Answer: 1609
Why: Moriscos were the descendants of Spain's Muslims who had been forced to convert to Christianity.
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About how many columns stand in Córdoba's Great Mosque?
Answer: About 850
Why: Reused Roman and Visigothic columns and capitals helped the first builders finish the original mosque in about a year.
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