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The Sack of Baghdad was the Mongol Empire's destruction of the Abbasid capital of Baghdad following a siege conducted by Hülegü Khan on his march to Masyaf.[1]

After Hülegü took the Assassins' citadel of Alamut,[2][3] he continued with his campaign westward, attacking other citadels throughout the Levant in retribution for his grandfather Genghis Khan's murder in 1227 at the hands of the Levantine Assassin Darim Ibn-La'Ahad and the Mongolian Assassin Qulan Gal,[4] as well as for an attempt on his own life.[5] After a two-week siege,[6] the Mongols destroyed Baghdad,[7] burning its libraries and the House of Wisdom and massacring most of its population, leaving behind only the "young and malleable".[1]

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