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 ones to suffer this fate, Baghdad and the House of Knowledge 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 that took refuge in the church or marked their doors as the Mongols 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 that it ran black with ink, a disaster comparable to the destruction of the Library of Alexandria. This would cause the fall of the Abbasid Caliphate, allowing the rise of the Mamluk in Egypt and really marking the end of the Islamic Golden Age. It would have ended regardless of the Mongols but just like with the Khwarazmain Genghis-Khan Hordes accelerated the process to catastrophic proportions. 

On another note, it is believed by many that the Mamluk defeated the Mongols. Ah ah lol no. What they did was beating back a raiding party from a lesser leader. The only reason the hordes didn’t nuked the Mamluk was because: one, the Mamluk were really far away and, two, the Mongols were about to fall into a civil war, so they were kind of busy. 

And this wasn’t the end of the troubles the Mongols would cause in the area. Oh no. 

 

We’ll continue with the Genghis-Khan in the next post. Make sure to follow the next part of the series! 


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