34 - the Mongol Invasion - a podcast by David DiMeo

from 2019-07-26T12:27:22

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As the Mongols devastated the great capital of Baghdad, killing thousands and throwing the contents of its great libraries into the river, the Muslim civilization received a blow from which it would never fully recover. This civilization would be permanently altered by the trauma of this destruction, from which a new center of power would emerge.