Editing Sack of Baghdad

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The '''Sack of Baghdad''' was the [[Mongol Empire]]'s destruction of the [[Abbasid Caliphate|Abbasid]] capital of [[Baghdad]] following a siege conducted by [[Hülegü Khan]] on his march to [[Masyaf]].<ref name = "Revelations 76">[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations (novel)|''Assassin's Creed: Revelations'' novel]] – Chapter 76</ref>

After Hülegü took the [[Assassins]]' citadel of [[Alamut]],<ref name="ACM">''[[Assassin's Creed: Memories]]'' – [[Hülegü Khan (memory)]]</ref><ref name="Revelations 54">''Assassin's Creed: Revelations'' novel – Chapter 54</ref> he continued with his {{Wiki|Mongol invasions of the Levant|campaign}} westward, attacking other citadels throughout the [[Levant]] in retribution for his grandfather [[Genghis Khan]]'s [[Assassination of Genghis Khan|murder]] in 1227 at the hands of the [[Levantine Brotherhood of Assassins|Levantine Assassin]] [[Darim Ibn-La'Ahad]] and the [[Mongolian Brotherhood of Assassins|Mongolian Assassin]] [[Qulan Gal]],<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Reflections]]'' – [[Assassin's Creed: Reflections 2|Issue #002]]</ref> as well as for an attempt on his own life.<ref name="Encyclopedia">''[[Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia]]''</ref> After a two-week siege,<ref name="Wikipedia">{{WP|Siege of Baghdad (1258)}}</ref> the Mongols destroyed Baghdad, burning its libraries and the [[House of Wisdom]] and massacring most of its population, leaving behind only the "young and malleable".<ref name="Revelations 76" />

==Appearances==
*[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations (novel)|''Assassin's Creed: Revelations'' novel]] {{mo}}

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