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House of Wisdom : I promise I will not cry | Siege of Baghdad 1258 | Mongols Hulagu Strikes (INTRO)
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The Siege of Baghdad properly the most negative influential doing the Mongolia have done that completely changed history.

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The siege of Baghdad was a siege that took place in Baghdad in 1258, lasting for 13 days from January 29, 1258 until February 10, 1258. The siege, laid by Ilkhanate Mongol forces and allied troops, involved the investment, capture, and sack of Baghdad, which was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate at that time.

The city is designed generally to be unconquerable, at least from outside.
If someone read about the city, especially the core circle part they would start to think " Am I reading a fantasy book? ". There are many things about the city that would make it straight up out of a fantasy book. The only thing missing is Dragons and magic. LoL.

Walls 20m high and 8m thick (not talking about the wall towers) elevation over the ground. The circular walls are even bigger average 32m high and at some points reaching to 50m high and 12+m thick.

The main army was out away and the Mongolias attack was a surprise and was highly calculated. The leaders were weak and scared ,they committed tons of mistakes. Also, they didn't use their money, they were in panic. Especially as the military commanders were out of the city the politicians did not know what to do. The Mongolias also bypassed the castles very quickly. The attack was fast and the city wasn't prepared. The leaders committed more mistakes and people were thinking they are Gog and Magog people so did not want to fight, also most of the people didn't understand the Mongolias yet and they were naive. The city of Baghdad at the time was very much impossible to take down by force even with WW1 technology (no airforce). They were naive and thought Mongolias would want peace. They surrendered to the Mongolias without a fight because they were cowards and then as the Mongolias army was in for free, turned on them and destroyed the city. The city did fight but very little. The Mongolias using palm trees as a weapon is like an out of Hollywood movie. The Mongolia army still lost half of their numbers at the end of the week. The city is too big and military designed as a a big castle, especially the circular core of the city. That it is very much impossible to defeat if the 1.5M-2M people resisted. Most of the male and female in the city are trained in fighting and military. The police force alone are 100k men and some few thousand women in the city. The amount of gold and importance of the city can very much be used to unify the Muslim world against the Mongolia if the leaders played it right.

The Mongolias did not defeat Baghdad, Baghdad surrendered without a fight. Imagine fighting a city the size of Auckland in NZ that is designed to be a giant castle for every inch ,house and street in the city. The city can't be starved due to the river across and a lackes inside and multiple wales and there is a giant guardian and other sections of small farms. There is inside about 20k palms trees. There are so many walls ,layers, traps, underground tonals and secrets. With preparations and 30k strong military soldiers and tons of money ,storage, siege equipment . It makes the city at least a 100× harder to take down than Constantinople. Not to mention the castles that if were not a full horse force would be forced to take down first, and every main layer has a 3-3 layer walls defense system which is 18× harder to crack than the 2 layer walls system in Constantinople but generally the same idea but more expensive. Baghdad had 5 of those main layers then a big castle in the middle. There was many castles in the city. There was a lot of gold that the Mongolias didn't want to bring all of it so it didn't corrupt them. Also they wanted to take a big part but they couldn't as they can't carry it with them , no space.