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To: freedom44
"The Mongols massacred 800,000 of the city's inhabitants, including the Abbasid Caliph Al-Musta'sim, and destroyed large sections of the city. The canals and dykes forming the city's irrigation system were also destroyed. The sack of Baghdad put an end to the Abbasid Caliphate, a blow from which the Arab civilization. never fully recovered." that's from wikipedia. The Persian Empire had long ago been swept aside, though the city's name is probably derived from Persian.
12 posted on 11/21/2005 5:51:36 PM PST by Skywalk (Transdimensional Jihad!)
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To: Skywalk

"See, I told you sacking Baghdad would be fun."

26 posted on 11/22/2005 2:28:54 PM PST by Heatseeker (Never underestimate the left's tendency to underestimate us.)
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