Genghis-Khan (Part 6), Baghdad? More like Baghdead
This post is following the last 5 ones. Make sure to read Genghis-Khan full history in part 1-5 of his adventures. This post is following the last 5 ones. Make sure to read Genghis-Khan full history in part 1-5 of his adventures. The Khwarazmian were not the only one s to suffer this fate, Baghdad and the H ouse of K nowledge suffered a similar fate as the city resisted and was utterly destroyed . The only one that received any mercy and survived the massacre was the Christian population th at took refuge in the church or marked their doors as the Mongol s instructed. This was mostly motivated by Doquz Khatun, the wife of the Mongol Khan Hulegu who led the attack . She was a Christan herself. But the rest of the city wasn’t so lucky and so many books of the libraries of Baghdad were thrown into the Tigris River ...