The History Of Baghdad: The Medieval World's Greatest City

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Baghdad is home to 7 million people. This sprawling urban jungle is the second largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. But between the skyscrapers and honking cars you can see remains of this city's magnificent mediaeval past. This once Round City’s walls crumbled long ago. But a thousand years ago brilliant scientists, architects, writers, and merchants of different races and religions made massive contributions to the knowledge of humanity. Back when Paris and London were home to 20,000 people over 1 Million Baghdadi's lived here among canals, libraries, and palm trees.

So what is the history of Baghdad, what’s a House of Wisdom, and what does it all have to do with Mediaeval Robots trying to get people drunk?

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Sources and Further Reading:

VIDEOS

Crash Course: https://youtu.be/bkVsus8Ehxs
Al Muqaddimah playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwy0OsD76k1P-UPjCVSDhqMISIi0bDu–
Penn Museum: https://youtu.be/nnT-niTh_jE
Al Jazeera: https://youtu.be/mYzPxwnGs34 and https://youtu.be/sAxWF_W6Q9w
from BBC: https://youtu.be/BOZupCYfBxg

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The Caliph's Splendor by Benson Bobrick
Baghdad: An Urban History through the Lens of Literature by Iman Al-Attar
The House of Wisdom by Jim al-Khalili
The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World by Hugh Kennedy

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