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)
-Nicolle, David - The Mongol Warlords: Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, Hulegu, Tamerlane, (Brockhampton, 1998)
-Saunders, J.J. - The History of the Mongol Conquests, (University of Pennsylvania, 2001)
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[@oussamalalgerino4234]

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]

Well thanks that’s quite the compliment!

[@glynphelps9027]

If you haven’t seen history dose do it the pictures are breathtaking

[@galaxyn3214]

The Mongolian conquests were scary.

[@Epiderm91]

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.]

​@@Epiderm91🤦‍♂️

[@axlYode]

That’s a bit of an understatement 😅

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

@@Epiderm91The Delhi Sultans as well. They prepared and went north to face them.

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

@@Epiderm91The Mamluks also used muskets which terrified the mongols.

[@brassteeth3355]

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.

[@steves.auckerman5966]

I wish you can make these like an hour long lol. Especially interested in Ottoman and Mongol history. Great Channel 👍

[@andreweden9405]

SO. flippin. good!!! I wasn't aware of so many of these details regarding the Christian element of the Mongol Empire. Thank you!

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

Thank you!

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Thank you,( real Crusades history )channel for sharing this wonderful historical coverage video

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@LannyX2]

The worst part of the seige was the loss of the of knowledge within the House of Wisdom.

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

The massacre was worse!

[@PunkDogCreations]

😂

[@PunkDogCreations]

No knowledge or wisdom was lost.

[@flyingfoamtv2169]

@@PunkDogCreationswhat the hell?

[@MexicoAdventurer]

Islamic wisdom is false. Not wisdom at all.

[@magnushorus5670]

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...

[@MichiFace6]

Very insightful. Especially enjoy the stories about the Mongols :D

[@johnT233]

Keep up the good work!! I have learn so much from your channel!

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

Thanks, will do!

[@asickspartan2763]

Awesome channel. Been binge-watching to get caught up at 1.5x speed. Thank you for the efforts

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@azimuth4850]

Wow. I'm sure those Christians had a strong testimony after that one...

[@Jason-gg4lm]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

What do you mean?

[@azimuth4850]

@@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]

Still evil and will suffer immensely for it!@@azimuth4850

[@-RONNIE]

Thank you for the good video

[@DNS-FRANK09]

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

[@syedasharimam]

Make videos more often 👍🏻

[@zact2342]

Always interesting to learn more about the Mongols, thank you!

[@KD400_]

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]

Savages

[@Johnny-me4io]

Awesome!!

[@vanishingfolklore]

this siege was so crazy

[@Jason-gg4lm]

It was perfection

[@Khattab511]

@@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]

@@Khattab511 yeah I'm ok with all that given how glorious and brutal the destruction of Baghdad was 😀🥳

[@Khattab511]

@@Jason-gg4lm and then the mongols converted to Islam 🥳☪️💪🏻💪🏻

[@user-cj3bi5ff6x]

​@@Khattab511Mongols are buddhist

[@R.C.425]

Thank you

[@Frisian_man]

what game is used in the backround video?

[@tschohanfaitscher3481]

at 15:30 there are some early firearms portrayed if I see correctly. Does anyone know something about that?

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

The art is from a later period, but as far as I know firearms were not used during this battle.

[@elvenkind6072]

The name of Hulagu sound like Sauron's favorite spider or something similar.

[@abcjuniormilton]

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]

What Nestorian

[@abcjuniormilton]

@@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]

​@@abcjuniormiltonDoctrine of Constantine

[@burningknuckle26]

Mongols were facinating😮

[@jeffwirick6099]

His terrible swift Sword Gentlemen*AK Steel*

[@eliskaflegrova9036]

Please 🙏 make the hasfids

[@ulsboldayurzana8439]

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]

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.

[@KyriSvk]

Monke Khan.

[@brewcity2317]

I remember reading from a history of Christianity book 📖, authored by an Orthodox Christian, that many of the Mongolian Khans's wives were Nesotorian Christians. According to the author most the scholars of the Mongolian's were Nestorian Christians. I took the author's name to be Russian, my assumption, if not Russian some Slavic is my guess. The author focused on a region of the world in Christian history, like Iraq for example, we in Western Christianity typically ignore in lectures or writings ✍️ on Christian history.

[@himalayanranges8751]

Love Mongol History

[@19ate4]

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]

What a legend 😁

[@epsilonxvi5675]

They are armenian and russian who hate Muslims

[@ProvisionalPatrioticAlliance]

Lots of Armenian Christians in particular. The Mongol general Kitbuqa, one of Hulagu's Lieutenants, was Christian.

[@shady83]

My enemies enemy . . .

[@lukred6271]

​@@ProvisionalPatrioticAllianceno christians werent on their side that early except Armenians but not during siege of Baghdad

[@soheildian371]

hia name is holaku.not holago,

[@blockmasterscott]

Didn’t the guy in charge of the city cut the beards of the Mongol messengers or something like that?

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

no

[@niajones992]

I would’ve been on pins and needles during the Mongol invasions.

[@bornbranded29]

Are Tartars Mongols?

[@nenenindonu]

Tatars until mid 1200's = Mongols Tatars after mid 1200's = Turks & Mongols Tatars from 14th century to present day = Kipchak Turks

[@bornbranded29]

@@nenenindonu thanks

[@enchanter7871]

I learned that Tartars are the word Russians used to describe the Mongols which means “from hell” or something like that

[@iacko12345]

No they are mostly Turkics with mixing from Mongol+Iranic+Slavs

[@jimmyavpi]

The Tartars are a sauce..

[@vinnuvinay93]

Halagu is a Buddhist right

[@santusanturohit4832]

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]

​@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.

[@samuelj2408]

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.

[@rajithaabeykoon3068]

Mongols were the original Japanese imperial army

[@lukred6271]

They couldve won if they took the Mongols more seriously