Mongols Sack Baghdad

This lecture narrates the calamity that befell the world’s largest, most prosperous, and most celebrated city. Fi... (more)

This lecture narrates the calamity that befell the world’s largest, most prosperous, and most celebrated city. First trace the rise of the Mongols, a fierce and most destructive ancient empire. Then follow their conquest of the Abbasids of Baghdad, culminating in the horrific siege that effectively ended the Islamic Golden Age. (less)