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• Yue ware (example pictured) was an early type of Chinese ceramics that was exported as far as the Middle-East and East Africa from the 8th to the 11th century?
• an alliance was formed in the 8th century between the Abbasid Caliphate and the Frankish Carolingian Empire against the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim Umayyads of Spain?
• Makhir of Narbonne was a Babylonian-Jewish scholar who settled in Narbonne, France at the end of the 8th century, and his descendants were leaders of the local Jewish community who bore the title of "nasi" (prince)?
• Japanese currency started in the 8th century with the minting of the Wadōkaichin coin (pictured)?
• Chinese influences on Islamic pottery (example pictured) date back to the 8th century?
• Ethelbert of York's 8th century library was probably the largest book collection of its day outside of Rome?
• Norse sagas record some Finnish campaigns against Sweden in the mid-8th century?