How the Mongols CONQUERED Baghdad, 1258 | Abbasid Apocalypse | Mongol Empire DOCUMENTARY
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Baghdad, the majestic capital city of the great Abbasid Caliphate. For centuries, the city was a center of culture, learning, trade and religious life. However, in the 1250’s, Hulagu, brother of the Mongol Khan, demanded that the Abbasid Caliph, Al-Mustasim, submit himself as a vassal to the Mongol Empire. The Caliph rejected this. In response, Hulagu raised an enormous army and marched on Baghdad itself. The Abbasids were now faced with the greatest threat in their history. Monke Khan instructed his brother Hulagu to destroy Baghdad if the Abbasids refused to surrender. Was resistance possible? Could the Abbasids overcome the war machine of the Mongol Empire?
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Sources:
-Chambers, James - The Devil's Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europe, (Castle Books, 2003)
-Jackson, Peter - The Mongols and the West: 1221-1410, (Routledge, 2005)
-Khanbaghi, Aptin - The Fire, the Star, and the Cross: Minority Religions in Medieval and Early Modern Iran, (I.B. Tauris, 2006)
-Marozzi, Justin - Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood: A History in Thirteen Centuries, (De Capo, 2014)
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-Saunders, J.J. - The History of the Mongol Conquests, (University of Pennsylvania, 2001)
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The Mongolian conquests were scary.
@Epiderm91
7 ай бұрын
Only if you waited inside your walls like a sheep waiting to be slaughtered...Mamluks knew this, and they sally forth to meet them...once their order of battle is fractured, they will run like chickens
@Storm-1.
5 ай бұрын
@@Epiderm91🤦♂️
@axlYode
4 ай бұрын
That’s a bit of an understatement 😅
@KILLER.KNIGHT
4 ай бұрын
@@Epiderm91The Delhi Sultans as well. They prepared and went north to face them.
@KILLER.KNIGHT
4 ай бұрын
@@Epiderm91The Mamluks also used muskets which terrified the mongols.
These were ruthless dudes. I'll admit that I've been calling him Hoola goo for the last 40 years. My brother told me about all this when I was in grade school. I've been fascinated since.
I watched many videos on the siege of Baghdad. But you the only one who make me live the event as if I were there. Thank you J S Roberts
@RealCrusadesHistory
10 ай бұрын
Well thanks that’s quite the compliment!
@glynphelps9027
8 ай бұрын
If you haven’t seen history dose do it the pictures are breathtaking
I wish you can make these like an hour long lol. Especially interested in Ottoman and Mongol history. Great Channel 👍
The worst part of the seige was the loss of the of knowledge within the House of Wisdom.
@KILLER.KNIGHT
4 ай бұрын
The massacre was worse!
@PunkDogCreations
2 ай бұрын
😂
@PunkDogCreations
2 ай бұрын
No knowledge or wisdom was lost.
@flyingfoamtv2169
Ай бұрын
@@PunkDogCreationswhat the hell?
@MexicoAdventurer
27 күн бұрын
Islamic wisdom is false. Not wisdom at all.
SO. flippin. good!!! I wasn't aware of so many of these details regarding the Christian element of the Mongol Empire. Thank you!
@RealCrusadesHistory
9 ай бұрын
Thank you!
Thank you,( real Crusades history )channel for sharing this wonderful historical coverage video
@RealCrusadesHistory
10 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
This channel is criminally under subscribed... thank you for taking the time to share such well researched history with us... too many people forget and know nothing of it...
Keep up the good work!! I have learn so much from your channel!
@RealCrusadesHistory
8 ай бұрын
Thanks, will do!
Awesome channel. Been binge-watching to get caught up at 1.5x speed. Thank you for the efforts
@RealCrusadesHistory
10 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoy it!
Very insightful. Especially enjoy the stories about the Mongols :D
Thank you for the good video
Wow. I'm sure those Christians had a strong testimony after that one...
@Jason-gg4lm
10 ай бұрын
👍👍👍👍👍
@KILLER.KNIGHT
4 ай бұрын
What do you mean?
@azimuth4850
4 ай бұрын
@@KILLER.KNIGHT 16:24 it says Hulagu's wife had the faith and she ensured much of the Christian population was spared. And she granted the Caliph's palace to the Church to be turned into a Cathedral.
@KILLER.KNIGHT
4 ай бұрын
Still evil and will suffer immensely for it!@@azimuth4850
Awesome!!
Make videos more often 👍🏻
Always interesting to learn more about the Mongols, thank you!
Imagine if the Mongols had guns and cannons!!! They had gunpowder but only small amounts for grenades but it'd be crazy if they had guns
This was a total annihilation. Everyone and everything was killed. Even the dead were taken out of their graves the animals were slaughtered. Etc
@dassolosyndikat5113
7 ай бұрын
Savages
Not many people talk about how the mongols had vast amounts of christians in their ranks. It’s very interesting that a Christian woman was married to the khan that sacked Baghdad
@Jason-gg4lm
10 ай бұрын
What a legend 😁
@epsilonxvi5675
10 ай бұрын
They are armenian and russian who hate Muslims
@ProvisionalPatrioticAlliance
10 ай бұрын
Lots of Armenian Christians in particular. The Mongol general Kitbuqa, one of Hulagu's Lieutenants, was Christian.
@shady83
10 ай бұрын
My enemies enemy . . .
@lukred6271
9 ай бұрын
@@ProvisionalPatrioticAllianceno christians werent on their side that early except Armenians but not during siege of Baghdad
Thank you
what game is used in the backround video?
this siege was so crazy
@Jason-gg4lm
10 ай бұрын
It was perfection
@Khattab511
8 ай бұрын
@@Jason-gg4lm after this siege the Mongols then entered Europe and destroyed Hungary and Poland and slaughtered all civilians, they could’ve overran Europe but the khan that passed away in Mongolia stopped the caimpaign
@Jason-gg4lm
8 ай бұрын
@@Khattab511 yeah I'm ok with all that given how glorious and brutal the destruction of Baghdad was 😀🥳
@Khattab511
8 ай бұрын
@@Jason-gg4lm and then the mongols converted to Islam 🥳☪️💪🏻💪🏻
@user-cj3bi5ff6x
6 ай бұрын
@@Khattab511Mongols are buddhist
at 15:30 there are some early firearms portrayed if I see correctly. Does anyone know something about that?
@RealCrusadesHistory
10 ай бұрын
The art is from a later period, but as far as I know firearms were not used during this battle.
Mongols were facinating😮
4:53 this is a nice image, but it's inaccurate for this topic because it's Japanese and depicts Japanese samurai. Nice video though. I was unaware of Kitbogha and Hulegu's wife being Christian and the sparing of the Nestorian Christians in Baghdad.
@user-bf5fh4uj7h
9 ай бұрын
What Nestorian
@abcjuniormilton
9 ай бұрын
@@user-bf5fh4uj7h Nestorianism is a set of Christian doctrines based on the teachings of the Christian theologian Nestorius, and was mostly present in the East.
@user-cg2tw8pw7j
2 ай бұрын
@@abcjuniormiltonDoctrine of Constantine
The name of Hulagu sound like Sauron's favorite spider or something similar.
His terrible swift Sword Gentlemen*AK Steel*
I do feel sorry for the great Library of Baghdad, but also Seeing from the perspective of the Mongols, the Nomads with no clue about importance about the Library, and also after years of battle against Assasins etc, there were lot of Grudge and hate towards Baghdad It is understandable Some people argue that Mongols were only barbarians, the cruel monsters then Waht About the Julius Ceaser who burned great Library of Greece back then, and yet he is great commander?
@RealCrusadesHistory
5 ай бұрын
I think there's no question Subutai was a general on par with Julius Caesar. And when it comes to barbarism, you can basically find that in abundance in every corner of military history no matter where you look. I don't see how the Mongols were any worse than the Romans, or just about anyone else for the that matter.
Please 🙏 make the hasfids
I would’ve been on pins and needles during the Mongol invasions.
hia name is holaku.not holago,
Didn’t the guy in charge of the city cut the beards of the Mongol messengers or something like that?
@user-cg2tw8pw7j
10 ай бұрын
no
Monke Khan.
Are Tartars Mongols?
@nenenindonu
10 ай бұрын
Tatars until mid 1200's = Mongols Tatars after mid 1200's = Turks & Mongols Tatars from 14th century to present day = Kipchak Turks
@bornbranded29
7 ай бұрын
@@nenenindonu thanks
@enchanter7871
4 ай бұрын
I learned that Tartars are the word Russians used to describe the Mongols which means “from hell” or something like that
@iacko12345
2 ай бұрын
No they are mostly Turkics with mixing from Mongol+Iranic+Slavs
@jimmyavpi
6 күн бұрын
The Tartars are a sauce..
Mongol destruction of baghdad set humanity back about 200 years, all the knowledge in those books, scrolls and the scientists, scholars and craftsmen and all of that was destroyed completely and nearly every single person was killed.
Mongols were the original Japanese imperial army
Halagu is a Buddhist right
@santusanturohit4832
5 ай бұрын
And he took revenge for Nalanda and other Buddhist Mahavihara of Indian Subcontinet..Tibetan consider India as their Guru..and Mongol consider Tibetan as their Guru..Historian missed the Nalanda-Tibetan-Mongol connection..In 1200 Nalanda was destroyed..Tibetan monks fled to Lhasa..News reached Mongol..in 30-50 years Mongol destroyed 90% Islmaic world..BTW Mongol never attacked India and Tibet.Later Mongol who converted to Islam attacked India..
@abdibgm5748
4 ай бұрын
@santusanturohit4832 Ironic part is that one of the engines behind the Islamic golden age was a man by the name Khalid bin Burmack he was the first Grand Vizier of the Abbasid Caliphate a position of power only only second to the Caliph himself. He was a Bacterian Buddhist who descended from Priests of the Buddhist high temples of the mountains of Afghanistan. His held an influential position in the Caliphate until the reign of the fifth Abbasid Caliph Harun Al Rashid.
They couldve won if they took the Mongols more seriously