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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

While I'd love to be the "Mongols did nothing wrong" guy, the siege of Bagdad and the destruction of the house of wisdom was fucking horrid. Even in terms of strategy and whatnot, since the information in the house of wisdom could have made the empire even stronger.

I might be biased, I learnt it from the documentary "Pleiades' Dust" by Luc Lemay, et al

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago

Oh I'm not denying any of that. Obviously the Mongols were brutal, and the siege of Baghdad ended the Golden Age in that part of the Muslim world. What I'm saying is that decline in West Asia was matched by equal progress in Central Asia and had little to no effect on Al-Andalus, so the Golden Age was still going strong after Baghdad fell.