Medieval Baghdad: Rise and Fall of the City of Peace - DOCUMENTARY

Discover the captivating story of Medieval Baghdad, once the shining beacon of the Islamic Golden Age, through the lens of Kings and Generals. Journey back to the early days of the Abbasid Caliphate, when the decision to relocate the capital to Baghdad marked the dawn of a new era. Learn about the meticulous planning and construction that transformed a humble hamlet into one of the greatest metropolises of its time, boasting a population of over a million inhabitants.
Explore the intellectual hub of the House of Wisdom, where scholars from diverse backgrounds converged to translate and preserve ancient texts, propelling Baghdad to the forefront of scientific and literary advancement. Delve into the vibrant tapestry of cultural exchange and innovation that characterized this illustrious period.
However, amidst the prosperity, tensions simmered, and Baghdad found itself embroiled in conflicts, both internal and external. Witness the tragic downfall of this once-mighty city as the Mongol hordes swept through its gates, leaving destruction and despair in their wake.
Despite the ravages of time and warfare, the legacy of Baghdad endures, preserved in the annals of history and the echoes of its former glory. Join us as we unravel the rich tapestry of Baghdad's past, from its zenith as a center of learning and prosperity to its eventual decline, leaving behind a legacy that continues to inspire and intrigue to this day.
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[@AbdullahSayeD-sb7ns]

Greatest Mistake was ignorance towards their duty to spread law of Allah in the world. they had enough wealth stored up but they ignored it, they didnt try to develop every city of the world like into baghdad giving education ,great laws ,healthcare etc.

[@MichaelBolar-de8im]

Can you please deal with the bots in the comments section

[@Blabla-pk2oc]

@@MichaelBolar-de8im bruh💀💀💀😎😎

[@Blabla-pk2oc]

@@MichaelBolar-de8im israeli bots

[@bastait]

the city of peace the seat of islamic power and every subsequent invasion for almost 1100 years you really are just lying at this point.

[@a.lgaming731]

“I’m from Baghdad, thank you for highlighting this great city. I hope you get to visit Baghdad someday.”

[@balabanasireti]

No one asked where you're from

[@davidrichards8793]

@@balabanasiretiYou have over 100 comments on this channel and almost all of them are negative, for once in your life I think you should stop blaming others for your sadness.

[@vitorpereira9515]

Cogito also made a very good documentary about your city.

[@vitorpereira9515]

@@balabanasireti Hi, i am no one.

[@MPrae]

Is Baghdad safe for a Christian foreigner?

[@tobo7580]

The friendship of Charlemane and the Abassid caliphe makes you realize, that despite in the ancient world, due to a lack of technology, distances being 'much greater' than they are today, people were still very interconnected and surprisingly friendly with one another, despite never coming face to face.

[@peasant8246]

> "despite never coming face to face." or maybe rather because of it.

[@twistedsteeltv6130]

​@@peasant8246what makes you say this?

[@peasant8246]

@@twistedsteeltv6130 Its easier to be friendly with a foreign state that's far away as you are not likely to have conflicts of interest between you. While countries that touch each others borders bump heads over innumerable issues like territory, use of shared bodies of water, natural resources, religion, trade and so on.

[@dummytest2363]

@@peasant8246 on top of that, the country that separates you two is likely both of your enemies too (like the umayyads)

[@richardgalbavy7103]

@@peasant8246 well, true story, but we know about nice delegations from Constantinople to Damascus/Baghdad and opposite that were very friendly even as war was waged in their borders. That friendship, I would say, was among the richer part of population while they sent poor soldiers to raid each other. Second thing, Charlemagne and Harun Al-Rashid had common border as we can see in video, but they were divided by Pyrenees, which could been hard to pass but not that much for an army which was commited. I would say that they were friends because both of them had to focus on other enemies beside on and other. But, maybe their love to knowledge was part of it, why not.

[@vitorpereira9515]

When Hulagu entered Baghdad, he issued a chilling warning to the Christians residing in the city: "Lock yourselves inside your church and do not venture out." The mere thought of the terror they must have experienced is unimaginable.

[@MichaelBolar-de8im]

He only spared them cuz his wife asked him to

[@vitorpereira9515]

@@MichaelBolar-de8im The fact that his mother, Sorghaghtani Beki, was also a Christian must have contributed to his decision.

[@AK-tf3fc]

@@MichaelBolar-de8im tbh looking from mediaeval lenses this was kinda norm.

[@bastait]

no it wasnt... they didnt fight back they surrendered anyone who attacked civilians by medieval standaRDS was violating chivalric law. thats why the cities in the holy land got sacked they fought back and were seen as enemy combatants. so no youre wrong or lying i can guess which. @@AK-tf3fc

[@anythingthoughanythingthou2453]

They weren’t terrified to them Hulagu was sent from God to help them. The was much rejoicing in Christian lands.

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

Abbasid Scholar Khateeb Al Baghdadi writes: "There is nothing weaker than a scholar whom people abandoned due to the corruption of his ways, and an ignorant person whose ignorance people accepted because they looked at his outward worship"

[@AnglephileSwedenGerman]

And? Could you give context when he said it n y

[@ghostd69]

Great video but he didn't highlight how umayyad was fell but rather than saying " persian supports" i will explain everything but before i want to point things clearly persian were the one who needed abbasid help to get rid of umayyad persecution, lets not forget how multi revolt and rebellion was leading by iranian aganist umayyad its ended in failure and getting defeated and plus more than half abbasid were army arab tribes of iraqi and khoursan even majority general was arabs only 2 persian abu muslim and ibn awn. Qatahba was the main general leading carried majority abbbasid revolt battles took persia and iraq from abbasid and final battle known as battle al zab was lead by another arab abdallah ibn ali such as chrincole of 757 and islamic sources confiremed it was abdallah no mention of abu muslim like al tabari in his book history of al tabari vol 7 page 432 and ibn kathir book Al Bidaya wan Nihaya vol 13 page 254 and 255and many historians agreed and wikipdia is not realiable sources menioned name abu muslim in battle of zab in wikipdia page made by iranian probganda Lets jump how umayyad was fell during thrid fitna occured 745 the princes of umayayd cousin was fought each other in throne and conflicts rivlary between al Qays and Yaman fighting each other in khoursan and iraq, although marwan managed to kill 3 princes fighting in throne Al Walid II and yazid III and ibrahim who caused fitna and people of levantine was getting upest due umayyad goverment drove into corruption, when marawn was unable to end internal conflicts he decided to abandon damascus capital of umayyad that was main power for umayyad and moved capital Harran leaving fitna to be on going till abbasid took advantage established their revolution in 747 and announcement of establishment their state. not trying down playing marawn was great he leading succesfully champigan aganist khazar and bezntyine and arabs khwarijies but he did mistake but moving capital and leaving fitna on going which on of main reason islamic sources called him " the donkey " if he didn't such stupid thing like that abbasid wouldn't came into existence.

[@saamarfinyan7979]

Thank you for this video , now Baghdad is far from glory , it’s a wounded city in a wounded state , hope it will be great again , greetings from Baghdad to all

[@ericponce8740]

A movie needs to be made about this tragic event in history.

[@systemreset9410]

im sure there is. but you mean a good well known movie

[@truthseeker-nv6ny]

I want a movie of the invasion from the lens of a common ordinary family living in Baghdad at the time

[@julianius484]

This could be it's own series. How about a documentary about the city of Florence at the height of renaissance?

[@marcuslouvierF1]

Tenochtitlan, Babylon, Carthage, Constantinople, Rome, Saint Petersburg, etc

[@Dimnah]

all of them, all of the center of Civilizations

[@bastait]

they lied from the title to the end. why is it justifiable for islam to invade all these places. we get lectured abouit the crusaders and then get complete white washings of islamic history. lol the city of peace every major invasion into europe was planned in the " city of peace" the leaders of baghdad made for 1100 years how was it peaceful explain.

[@malikna6870]

Not to forget Alexandaria @@marcuslouvierF1

[@TheCorgiChannel]

Yeeessssss!!!

[@derrengui]

The only city that could somehow compete with Abassid Baghdad at the time was Umayyad Cordoba That'd be a nice video too

[@Vampirewolfking]

And Roman Constantinople. Those three were the greatest cities of the middle ages on that side of the silk road.

[@derrengui]

@@Vampirewolfking true

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

Damascus, Aleppo, Delhi, Lahore, Kashgar, Otrar, Merv, Smarkand, Bukhara, Tunis, Balarm, Toledo, Ghazni, Balkh, Herat, Fez and others too.

[@batssama]

@@Vampirewolfking i mean no insult, but i disagree, it was past its prime and had nowhere near the influence Baghdad had the time, it truly was the center of the world at its peak

[@maxg8766]

In 1000 AD, it was the third largest city in the world. It wasn't at its peak, but it was still a very important city.

[@raidhalawani6804]

As a Muslim, I felt sad. However, great work, thanks.

[@MrflimflamElite]

I'm from Iraq and this is amazing

[@ghostd69]

Great video but he didn't highlight how umayyad was fell but rather than saying " persian supports" i will explain everything but before i want to point things clearly persian were the one who needed abbasid help to get rid of umayyad persecution, lets not forget how multi revolt and rebellion was leading by iranian aganist umayyad its ended in failure and getting defeated and plus more than half abbasid were army arab tribes of iraqi and khoursan even majority general was arabs only 2 persian abu muslim and ibn awn. Qatahba was the main general leading carried majority abbbasid revolt battles took persia and iraq from abbasid and final battle known as battle al zab was lead by another arab abdallah ibn ali such as chrincole of 757 and islamic sources confiremed it was abdallah no mention of abu muslim like al tabari in his book history of al tabari vol 7 page 432 and ibn kathir book Al Bidaya wan Nihaya vol 13 page 254 and 255and many historians agreed and wikipdia is not realiable sources menioned name abu muslim in battle of zab in wikipdia page made by iranian probganda Lets jump how umayyad was fell during thrid fitna occured 745 the princes of umayayd cousin was fought each other in throne and conflicts rivlary between al Qays and Yaman fighting each other in khoursan and iraq, although marwan managed to kill 3 princes fighting in throne Al Walid II and yazid III and ibrahim who caused fitna and people of levantine was getting upest due umayyad goverment drove into corruption, when marawn was unable to end internal conflicts he decided to abandon damascus capital of umayyad that was main power for umayyad and moved capital Harran leaving fitna to be on going till abbasid took advantage established their revolution in 747 and announcement of establishment their state. not trying down playing marawn was great he leading succesfully champigan aganist khazar and bezntyine and arabs khwarijies but he did mistake but moving capital and leaving fitna on going which on of main reason islamic sources called him " the donkey " if he didn't such stupid thing like that abbasid wouldn't came into existence.

[@MrflimflamElite]

​@@ghostd69wow

[@user-ol7tk8te8l]

Baghdadadi this video makes me so happy and also so Sad to see what once one of the greatest city in history completely destroyed in every except possible

[@eddyr1041]

The lostbof of house of wisdom was such a waste 😢😅

[@adamndirtyape]

You should add a final comment about how the Americans rained destruction on Baghdad while bringing 'freedom' to Iraq in the two Gulf Wars. Their final invasion led to the looting of the National Museum of Iraq which housed many treasures and cultural artifacts. Also, the invasion led to large-scale damage to the city, including the destruction of the zoo, massive sanitation problems, and transportation problems after the subway closed and the Americans divided the city up into Green Zones and such. It's funny how American wars to bring peace and freedom usually end up in death, destruction, and misery for those they are supposed to be helping.

[@jokester3076]

President Bush and the media barons deceived and mislead the American people into war, exploiting the public’s fear and anger over the attacks on New York City and D.C. If Al-Gore had won in 2000 instead of Bush, the war likely wouldn’t have happened and Iraq would still be ruled by Saddam.

[@Han-rw9ev]

The US wars were really about oil. Most people outside the US already figured that out. (I actually knew a UK soldier who predicted some of the invasions. (the guy wasn't too thrilled about it). Back then I didn't understand the mindset of certain types of politicians. ) . Basically thousands of soldiers and civilians died so a bunch of fat cats could get even richer.

[@jarwpedja6330]

America always go to war for its own interests.There are practically same as Mongols in the Middle ages

[@Bell_plejdo568p]

@@Han-rw9evthe iraq war was also for is7aerl

[@nomadichorseman]

One is left to wonder how much more advanced society would be had the Mongols not burned the House of Wisdom to the ground... as someone who is always curious to learn more, this saddens me that they destroyed books with no regard to what knowledge they might have held.

[@minatodroger7890]

It seems it something that always happens. Even during the collapse of the bronze age. Some horde and then some great epidemic always caused knowledge to be lost.

[@Zengids1turkmens]

As someone from Iraq thank you so much for doing a vid on our greatest city Baghdad isn't as great as it was before but it's still worth a trip I've been there once and it's amazing

[@ronjohnson6916]

Ooh cool. A subject I've always wanted to know more about.

[@invictus_aeternum]

Excellent video and thank you K&G for showcasing the magnificence that was Baghdad. بغداد لا انت انت و لا الديار ديار 🇮🇶

[@YoussefDaanBenAmor]

An incredible miracle Baghdad still stands today. Especially given how many rise and falls, high points and low points the city has seen throughout its rich history!

[@jamesforreal]

It kind of breaks my heart that I was there in Baghdad, and didn't really see or know about any of this. Baghdad was a city of light, much like Rome is today. Thanks for the video.

[@Paidwellington]

I was legit hoping for a good documentary of medieval Baghdad and wallah, Kings and Generals delivers.

[@evillink1]

Never been to Baghdad but I've been to southern Iraq in my younger years, not under the best circumstances. Beautiful country, beautiful culture rich with history.

[@Vllili]

Baghdad was a paradise for scholars ✨✨ The Arab Islamic civilization ended very tragically💔💔

[@KING_SADAT]

Hey, man, thank you for uploading these kinds of videos. You know that you are enhancing my general knowledge ❤ love you from Afghanistan. 🖤❤️💚

[@zaidatimash713]

First, Iraqi from Bagdad to watch this!

[@qusaytheakkadian5715]

واني الثالث

[@zaidatimash713]

@@qusaytheakkadian5715منو الثاني

[@ZAMislive]

must be cool to watch this brother

[@ZAMislive]

w pfp @@qusaytheakkadian5715

[@Shahking704]

Brilliant video as always but 1 thing that isn't highlighted as much about golden age Baghdad is that scholarship of mathematics, science and literature were not the only forms of knowledge that advanced in that time but also the Islamic sciences and the religious figures like Imam Musa Qazim, Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Ghazali and Shaykh Abdul Qadir among others who contributed greatly to the scholarship of theology, Philosophy and Spirituality.

[@hydrolifetech7911]

Am a Muslim myself but I have to tell you religious sciences is not a thing. The brand of theology some of those later imams started to spread were against mathematics and science. This was catastrophic for Muslim world which regressed in knowledge culminating in the subjugation and plunder by European powers. Look at the current state of the Arab world and tell me whether the theology, philosophy and spirituality spread by those Imams advanced Islam and the world.

[@Shahking704]

@@hydrolifetech7911 So the first point is religious sciences is a thing. It's just not science as in the stufy of the natural world, its the study of the religion. The modules include tafseer of the quran, Hadith, Arabic language, jurisprudence and others. The second thing is all of the people in the golden age who advanced science like ibn Haytham, Ibn Sina or Al Khwaresmi all had a foundation of Islamic learning in all of those modules I just explained. It may not have have been extensive but it was a foundation nonetheless. Thirdly your going to have to be specific with which of the later imams your referring to. Imam Musa Qasim is a direct decendant of the prophet Muhammad, Imam Abu Hanifa specialised in Islamic Jurisprudence to the point where most Muslims in the world follow his methodology. Imam Al Ghazalis teachings do clash with scientific advancement but that's because he was looking at it at the religion from a purely spiritual perspective and referring to the over indulgence of the state in scientific affairs and not concentrating on its people. Shaykh Abdul Qadir is the most revealed spiritual Saint in South Asia and parts of the Middle east for his teachings on spirituality. My point is the scholars of religion did not directly influence the decline of the pusute of the natural sciences but a series of other factors. I understand your point about the state of the Arab world but blaming that on a lack of scientific advancement is quite frankly naive aswell historically inaccurate. The ottomon empire focused more on spirituality and expansion rather than science yes but the Arab decline is due to further external factors and colonisation. Harun ar Rashid focused on learning and wanted Greek philosophy, indian mathematics, African history, Chinese medicine all to be translated Into Arabic but where did that get them in the end nowhere, the mongols came and destroyed it all. The arabs couldn't recover from that and neither did a leader come again who wanted to focus on that. The only state in the middle east focused on any kind of scientific development is the UAE because it has the money to do so, everyone else is too worried about survival amid war, sanctions and other problems.

[@ghostd69]

Great video but he didn't highlight how umayyad was fell but rather than saying " persian supports" i will explain everything but before i want to point things clearly persian were the one who needed abbasid help to get rid of umayyad persecution, lets not forget how multi revolt and rebellion was leading by iranian aganist umayyad its ended in failure and getting defeated and plus more than half abbasid were army arab tribes of iraqi and khoursan even majority general was arabs only 2 persian abu muslim and ibn awn. Qatahba was the main general leading carried majority abbbasid revolt battles took persia and iraq from abbasid and final battle known as battle al zab was lead by another arab abdallah ibn ali such as chrincole of 757 and islamic sources confiremed it was abdallah no mention of abu muslim like al tabari in his book history of al tabari vol 7 page 432 and ibn kathir book Al Bidaya wan Nihaya vol 13 page 254 and 255and many historians agreed and wikipdia is not realiable sources menioned name abu muslim in battle of zab in wikipdia page made by iranian probganda Lets jump how umayyad was fell during thrid fitna occured 745 the princes of umayayd cousin was fought each other in throne and conflicts rivlary between al Qays and Yaman fighting each other in khoursan and iraq, although marwan managed to kill 3 princes fighting in throne Al Walid II and yazid III and ibrahim who caused fitna and people of levantine was getting upest due umayyad goverment drove into corruption, when marawn was unable to end internal conflicts he decided to abandon damascus capital of umayyad that was main power for umayyad and moved capital Harran leaving fitna to be on going till abbasid took advantage established their revolution in 747 and announcement of establishment their state. not trying down playing marawn was great he leading succesfully champigan aganist khazar and bezntyine and arabs khwarijies but he did mistake but moving capital and leaving fitna on going which on of main reason islamic sources called him " the donkey " if he didn't such stupid thing like that abbasid wouldn't came into existence.

[@Shahking704]

@@ghostd69 Thankyou for your explanation but you answered a question I didn't even ask. Firstly the video didn't explain the fall of the ummayads because the video was only about the city of Baghdad as the capital of the Abbasid empire. Secondly I commented highlighting the advancement of Islamic knowledge in Baghdad during and after the Abbasid Caliphate. So what has the fall of the ummayads got to do with that.

[@ghostd69]

@@Shahking704 He said abbasid support was persian

[@qamarshaker5555]

Thank you so much! I’ve been waiting on this one

[@forgeflarion8362]

The video was great as always! Thank you so much for making it free!

[@luisroncayolo6547]

Amazing. I'm so glad that you decided to cover this period of history. It is a much needed history, largely ignored in the West.

[@erebos7992]

The production quality increases with every video, you guys are doing amazing! best wishes to the Kings and Generals' crew!

[@haditawbe9617]

This whole video is a magnificent work of art. Great job!

[@HistoryRoar247]

What a great topic to cover! Thank you!!

[@joey6280]

Thank you so much for this invaluable content. I'm into Asian history and I appreciate your coverage of the Islamic golden Age

[@jacobavners2394]

I've recently finished a course on Wondrium (formerly The Great Courses Plus) on the Islamic Golden Age, AND read all of the historical tidbits added to Assassin's Creed Mirage, AND likely watched further KZbin videos on this subject. And yet this video still managed to show/teach me a few things that I was not previously familiar with! Great job, K&G team!

[@nicholaslindsey7087]

Assassin’s Creed Mirage inspired me to research more about Medieval Baghdad. In its time, it was the cultural center of the world, just like Alexandria was the cultural center in its time.

[@Fabio-Jose-DragonKing]

Your videos always leave me in awe! Thanks for all your creativity and hardwork 😊😊😊❤❤

[@samuelmargueret9626]

A very well depicted small documentary .... you guys are doing an insane job as always keep Going on !!! Got my full support 😮

[@mikemodugno5879]

Fascinating video. Thank you so much for your hard work.

[@KHK001]

Amazing video as always KnG!

[@chibble3591]

production quality is amazing and getting better and better.

[@Aymn-zl4kl]

You guys do great work 👏

[@thebread8888]

Awesome work! Could you guys do a series on great cities?

[@alial-abbasi8998]

I’m from Baghdad. 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 Please add Arabic subtitles for Iraqi viewers. Thank you for this video.

[@user-ju3sc1jh8m]

بغداد قبل كانت افضل من الان للاسف

[@evakuator8118]

Well, nobody stops your from adding them yourself

[@muhib8304]

Make video on Cardoba as well or cities of Muslim Spain.

[@mu.xiaoyang]

I've passed "with Honours" many exams about history and culture of muslim countires. Studying the Abbasid period and most recent events, I cannot ignore how american soldiers, in this context, have been unfortunately similar to the mongols back then. I wish Baghdad will rise again in the future, free from despots and occupying armies. 🇪🇺🇮🇶

[@-RONNIE]

Thanks for the video 👍🏻

[@kmvoss]

Thank you for this content. It's fascinating stuff.

[@Soap_bubbles591]

This is such an eye opener ,thank you🙌

[@ruslanibragimov6941]

Great video that does this storied City proud.

[@patrickjames8050]

Much Appreciated. So much I need to learn..

[@parrot849]

I would love to time travel back to that 🐪 golden age of Baghdad ( of course, after taking a magic local language pill first) and see for myself the wonder of that grand city….

[@Soap_bubbles591]

I love you Kings and Generals ,you shall always remain my favorites history source ❤

[@Gen.berseker25]

You should cover more Middle Eastern cities from Ancient to Muslim History like Babylon, Uruk, Samarra, and Nineveh!

[@abdulrehman6791]

now this video is amazing

[@YeeeeGreg]

Very cool video. I love these videos where you talk about the great cities of history

[@alessandroneckam]

@KingsandGenerals never ceases to impress for the incredible quality and historical accuracy about places and events sometimes far from the common knowledge, just a pity we can only imagine how Baghdad looked in those glorious days

[@milovandegraaf6014]

Great video!

[@obaidahsan6969]

When idol worshippers in India say "why don't arabs have a Taj Mahal if Muslims were so elegant back in the day", they must know that a city named Baghdad existed, which had no other equivalent in its glory, abundance and majesty. Even the status and position which cities like New York has in the modern world, can't be compared to what Baghdad had back then. But unfortunately it was all lost to the Mongol invasions. It was the Muslim sultans in Delhi which saved this land, its people, its culture, its heritage from the barbaric Mongols. Not only that, but they even took it to new heights of prosperity and glory in that very same period. But instead of being grateful and hailing them as heroes, they villify the Muslims for their cheap and filthy politics.

[@obaidahsan6969]

@user-xd4nl9sq9x so you are saying that you do not believe that Taj Mahal is some 'ancient xyz temple' and built by some random weak cow worshipper raja? And its minarets do not appear to you as shivling? Impressive! But sadly your masters won't be happy with this.

[@ytj17thjuggalo12]

Nothing beats some middle age history like Kings and Generals 😎 Another good day when you guys release a vid🤝

[@mrtodoo]

Loved the video ❤❤❤ i want to see more Islamic History. You guys make the best historic content

[@rahimakhatun9247]

Cool video. I think you guys should make a video on golden hodre khanates history

[@muhammadsamir9726]

I really love the video .. thank U

[@al-farsi8738]

BAGHDAD IS MY L❣️VE! May it regain its lost glory!💔😞

[@ZAMislive]

ya rabb

[@Zer0Mat8c]

I wonder what would world we would live in if Baghdad had submitted peacefully to the Mongols? The preservation of wisdom and knowledge.....

[@tylerellis9097]

🙄

[@Zer0Mat8c]

@temptemp4174 they had a code of honor that they swore by. If a city submitted immediately to them, they would spare it.

[@MichaelBolar-de8im]

Abbasid caliphate: Yes Baghdad is ours! Now peace can reign. Mongols: I’m gonna end this man’s entire career in life.

[@LL-dl3cw]

just for them to enter Islam later on

[@user-vl2mr8mr5u]

Yea yea soo funny

[@Ajaylix_history_shorts]

​@LL-dl3cw Mongols are not Muslim, only a selected few rules were Muslim. As you can see like 98% of Mongols are Buddhist and some others still practice shamanism.

[@crzahmed9707]

​@@Ajaylix_history_shorts Not really, most of them became Muslims,the only ones that became Buddhists were those back in Mongolia and china. 70% of central Asia has Mongolian (including many having Genghis) ancestry, and Uzbeks are actually Jochid Mongols and Muslims

[@Mahapadmadipatu]

@@crzahmed9707 but why the Uzbek rejects mongol and create their nationalistic idea why does most central Asian in denial that they are mongol descendants

[@andrewdockrill]

Fascinating video. I wish there were more biographies on these important historical men like al-mansur.

[@TheLiquid765]

This is excellent 👌

[@majidbineshgar7156]

I think one of the reason Baghdad and Islamic empire collapsed was mainly due to the fact that Muslims have been of extremely diverse ethnic backgrounds some of whom like Persians , Spanish ,Caucasia ...had strong sense of national identity very distinct languages ( Non-arabic ) and were proud of their own cultural heritage therefore they felt entirely alien to the rest of Muslims and wished Islamic Empire to disintegrate therefore they actually collaborated with the Mongols .

[@bbnn5621]

I think that's a fair perspective but I think it also goes the other way, Arabic cultural systems meant that those that didn't assimilate found themselves on the outside of the power centers in the Umayyad Caliphate. The Abbasids tried to balance between Arabs and non-Arabs but ended up upsetting everyone, including various Arab groups, some of which revolted back in the 9th century.

[@Beyonder1987]

Many semetic groups became Arabised when Baghdad became the capital of the empire and culture of the Middle East. A feat not seen in semetic world since time of Uruk or Greeks would call Mesopotamia

[@majidbineshgar7156]

@@bbnn5621 Yes , curiously later in the history the Ottoman empire attempted to build an Islamic empire based on Abbasid caliphate but eventually they could not include Iranic territories in their Theocracy empire and Iranians ( Safavids ) allied with the Catholic Europe against Ottoman Muslim Caliphate .

[@Arab.Mesopotamian]

Insha Allah my city regains its former glory 🇮🇶🇮🇶

[@Vllili]

🏴🏴

[@ianblake815]

Awesome vid! Baghdad has an amazing history. I really want to see something on Babylon too.

[@saberaahsan3287]

This is a magnificent story of innovation collaboration triumph and peace. It's so heartbreaking to hear about the fall of Baghdad at the hands of the Mongols but what is even more heartbreaking is our lack of knowledge about its history. It makes the American and UK invasion of Baghdad even more pointless and disgusting. How ignorant we have been in the west about the history of the Islamic empires and the golden era. It's like a historical treasure that has just been kept a secret and it's only now that we're discovering all these amazing things about these civilisations. Another point I would like to make having studied history at A Level in the UK is how narrow one-sided and ignorant is the history curriculum in the UK shame on the national curriculum Mrs Jones and every other teacher who has failed to teach the beauty and diversity and richness that is our world history.

[@lovebaltazar4610]

I just finished AC Mirage, so this video is perfectly timed!

[@alihussain4349]

What did you think of the game. I was thinking of buying it.

[@lovebaltazar4610]

@@alihussain4349 Solid game. Fun stealth, great setting and world design, just don't go in expecting a great story. AC hasn't had that since black flag imo

[@EM.K024]

​@@alihussain4349I'm a history buff so I love the game just for the fact they tried to rebuild medieval Baghdad as much as they could, I enjoyed the game, bought it during pre-order was affordable during release, I'm sure it's even more affordable during sales.

[@alihussain4349]

@@EM.K024 It is cheaper to buy now, you are right.

[@NettiGaming]

Great watch

[@hoottasshell]

I dig the new direction on focusing on the logistics of the empires, rather than just war (though those are good too).

[@milkmonster2310]

Baghdad has ironically been one of the most unpeaceful cities in history. From the Mongols, Timurids, to the British invasion of the 1900s to the Iraq War. So much destruction and death from the city's prime during the days of Harun Al Rashid. Jerusalem is probably the only city with a more bloody past.

[@adamsnow4979]

Nah you should try Belgrade

[@arnorrian1]

God-given in Serbian is Bogdat. The name being Indoeuropean in origin never occured to me.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Simplest words are the ones that usually remain within the related languages unchanged

[@aelbali]

Bedankt

[@VanaeCavae]

I am disappointed that you failed to mention the Barmakids who helped oversaw the construction of Baghdad. They were originally an influential and rich Iranian Buddhist family from Balkh who later converted to Islam and introduced Indian sciences to the Arabs.

[@majidbineshgar7156]

Even the first great university in the Islamic world " Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad " was founded by Persians .

[@VladVlad-ul1io]

Oh nice. Afgha is mentioned

[@Beyonder1987]

@@majidbineshgar7156Persians themselves based there entire pre Islamic civilisation on Semetic civilisation such as Babylon and Akkadia. The main language of the Persian empire was Aramaic. There main capitals were not even in Persia proper. It was in Uruk, now called Iraq

[@111battlefront]

@@Beyonder1987 are you stupid

[@majidbineshgar7156]

@@Beyonder1987 Although one cannot deny the fact that Semitic peoples ( Phoenicians , Babylonians , Assyrians) have contributed to the advancement of human civilisation and the very fact that all Eurasian writing systems evolved from Phoenician Alphabet , yet Persians have always been very aware of their Aryan ( i.e. politically correct " proto-indo-european" not to be confused with what average Americans understand thereby ), but Persian empire was principally founded upon Iranian Medo- Persian heritage and mainly Persian language next to Aramaic and Greek was used in their vast empire so that all their citizens across the empire territory would be able to understand the administrative laws and regulations which was by itself a novelty , moreover the Abbasid dynasty itself was run mainly by Iranic administrators and scholars copying Sassanian empire administration therefore they were more tolerent towards Greeks and Assyrians ( Nestorian Christians ), even Arabic language was reformed and enriched by Iranians Sibawayh and Ibn al-Muqaffa who wrote Grammar and translated many middle-Persian books into Arabic and also Assyrians Christians and Greeks have contributed a great deal to Abbasid as well as Islamic intellectual development

[@ekmalsukarno2302]

Kings and Generals, can you please make videos on the Srivijaya and Malacca kingdoms. Please accept my requests.

[@D00Rb3LL]

You should do more videos of the great cities in history at their height

[@audiblequotations8050]

Thank you from Iraq /Baghdad

[@paccjorge1098]

When he said "sitback and relax" I felt that.

[@alifaleh7102]

Islam golden jewel: Baghdad ❤ very well said kings ❤

[@marcuslouvierF1]

Hello, Kings and Generals. I have watched your videos for years and absolutely love them. I do have a question. Will these videos you are promoting, like the life of Sulla and so on, be available on your channel after a while or will they only be for patreons for eternity? Thank you for all your work

[@KingsandGenerals]

Not anytime soon

[@s.m.galibahsannabib8016]

I am a Bangladeshi but my dream city is Bagdad, One day I hope I'll step foot there In Sha Allah

[@user-kc2ck2hj1y]

Not necessarily a correction (because strictly speaking it isn't wrong) but rather a clarification: The 1001 Nights was a collection of Persian, Mesopotamian, and possibly Indian fairytales, not Arabic (or at least not in it's first iteration, if there are Arabic tales they were most likely added later). It's first publication was in Middle Persian (Pahlavi) as 'A Thousand Tales'. After the Arabs conquered Persia and other territories, they standardized language to Arabic which meant that a lot of sources of literature from the conquered areas were translated and then originals forgotten. So strictly speaking, yes it's an Arabic collection, in that it is a collection of stories (or the evidence of the singular book already in publication in Persia of Hezār Afsān 'The Thousand Stories' that was originally in Pahlavi and probably compiled in Syria) that was later translated into Arabic for perseverance and language standardization. It's just a small clarification to help clear the misconception that the 1001 Nights are Arabic in source material, rather than the collection of Iranian and Indo-Iranian folklore from the large territory of Persia that the Arabs took over. (Source @ The Arabian Nights: A Companion by Robert Irwin)

[@majidbineshgar7156]

Yes even the book starts ( French translation of Mardus ) "...there was a king among the Sasanian kings .... called Shahriar ..."

[@Vllili]

Arabian Nights...from its name, it is Arabic, and it contains Persian and Indian stories, because Persia is under the rule of the Arabs and is part of the people.

[@majidbineshgar7156]

@@Vllili Even in its Arabic version it after its middle -Persian original source , is called " Alf Laylah wa-Laylah " meaning "one thousand and one night" it must have been one the many books translated from middle-Persian to Arabic by Ibn al-Muqaffa and subsequently during Abbasid dynasty mould have been added other stories thereto .

[@Vllili]

@@majidbineshgar7156 Arabian Nights was inspired by India, Persians and Arabs, but it became famous under the rule of the Arabs, so it was called Arabian Nights

[@nbdyknw]

Love baghdad from mongolia ♥️

[@rezhyarsonseven6779]

Great work! I would love to see a video and explanation about the origin of Kurds .

[@maddogbasil]

*Yo K&G* *Can We See a video Done on the Horn of Africa and the Ancient Lands of Punt and Macrobia*

[@user-ju3sc1jh8m]

When the first Abbasid ruler took over Iraq, he wanted to leave his mark so that people would remember him. That's why he decided to build the most beautiful city and named it Baghdad. He also built another city and called it Samarra. Its name literally means the city that a person is happy when he sees. This is evidence that he was obsessed with people remembering him

[@InquisitorXarius]

“The Razing of Baghdad is an excellent example of the Elite screwing over the Middle and Lower Classes. Baghdad would not have suffered the fate it did if not for the arrogance of the House of Abbas. I lament the fate of the people of Baghdad and I lament the loss of the House of Wisdom but I celebrate the fate of the Abbasid elites, the very Abbasid elites who damned the people of Baghdad to such an evil as the Chengisid.” Btw I’m using quotes because KZbin has repeatedly censured my comments on the platform.

[@apachethehun]

KG you are GOAT

[@gh4738]

Then 8 centuries after other monsters came with airplains and bombed it to ashes..

[@mohammadkhan-dk6ep]

Could you make a video about the Champa Islamic kingdom which ruled in Vietnam?

[@TheJarlofWhiterun]

your videos are excellent but could you use a different background sound effect for urban ambience without the looping wooo wooo cheering?

[@conho4898]

It would be great if theres a video on Chang'an and Luoyang!

[@user-rb4zk7rm9g]

Baghdad is the center of the globe

[@HellenicChanel]

I hope this is going to be a new series about great medieval and ancient cities. I hope you quys do about Constantinople!

[@josenathanieltendencia245]

I haven't played assassin's creed mirage yet. But I'm sure seeing Baghdad in game would be so gorgeous.

[@necroticzombie420]

I just had a thought about “ I’m supposed your still able to make new videos about battles and then I tell myself well ancient history is way longer and more war than modern history “

[@user-lx1ez6tf9r]

Do a video on the nabateans and Petra