In 1209, a shipment of elite soldiers from Cordoba arrived in England. Over the next few months, John went on a rampage, using his own mercenaries and his new soldiers to virtually destroy the English nobility. Huindreds of tousands of people fled northward into the arms of the invading Scots. The Scots set up a variety of new countries, for the people who had fled, like the Principality of New Wales. In the south, the French invaded Cornwall and set up the Kingdom of Upper Britanny as a vassal. But John, now crowned Emir dominated Wales and Southern and Central England as well as the Emirate of Ireland. With his forces he could have easily crushed the Scots and French, but for one thing. The money he had to pay the Caliph of Cordoba every year, maintained a status quo for centuries. No on