Mongol Empire · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Siege of Baghdad (1258)
On the Mongol Empire map as “The fall of Baghdad”
Feb 1258 — The caliph al-Musta‘sim, promised safety, surrenders after a week of bombardment; the city is sacked and he is rolled in a carpet and trampled — royal blood must not touch the earth. The 500-year Abbasid caliphate ends; the House of Wisdom’s books are scattered. The Tigris running black with ink is legend; the mass graves are not. Remember Baghdad.
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- Site of memory
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- Fall of Baghdad and Ain Jalut (chapter 8 of Mongol Empire)
- Atlas
- The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294
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