The end of the Islamic Golden Age: 1258 Historical Siege of Baghdad | Total War Battle

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Published 2024-07-21
The siege of Baghdad took place in early 1258 at Baghdad, the historic capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. After a series of provocations from the city's ruler, Caliph al-Musta'sim, a large army under the Mongol prince Hulegu attacked the city. Within a few weeks, the city fell and was sacked by the Mongol armyβ€”al-Musta'sim was killed alongside hundreds of thousands of his subjects. The city's fall has traditionally been seen as marking the end of the Islamic Golden Age

00:00 The Mongols
01:10 The Abbasid Caliphate
02:25 The Order of Assassins
02:48 Hulagu Khan begins his conquest
04:07 The Mongols prepare
04:45 The Mongol/ Abbasid correspondence
05:47 The Siege of Baghdad begins
06:47 The Mongol attack begins
09:39 The Mongols breech the east battlements
10:44 Negotiations open up
12:06 The sack of Baghdad
All Comments (12)
  • @davidcreager1945
    Your videos are a wonderful work of art !! Extremely well done , Sir !!!! Would love to see you cover the Alamo , Battle of Saratoga , Monmouth and Oriskney from the American Revolution .
  • @manuelacosta9463
    This was a typically brutal Mongol conquest but the Caliph proved incompetent and out of his depth. This was the true end of an era, the Mongols had a knack for initiating such events.
  • @wallyspicks
    I’ve been waiting for this battle out of all history
  • @mohammadalmajid6599
    nice vid. I wish the mongols didn't burn the books. Imagine the amount of knowledge and discoveries that were lost
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  • @infoscholar5221
    Good teaching of history, instead of just, X,000 of A versus X,000 of B, which is mindless.
  • @Sanj1n
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