“Turning Points in Middle Eastern History” S:1 E:18 Mongols Sack Baghdad – 1258

S:1 E:18 Mongols Sack Baghdad – 1258 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.