Baghdad: The Forging of Islam (TRIH eps 376-379)
750–800 · Resource
Baghdad was a place of fabulous sophistication and teeming multitudes, where terrible things could happen, but great wonders could also be found… During the Islamic Golden Age, it was the most global city the world had ever seen, a truly diverse cosmopolis, with silks and porcelains from China, spices from India, slaves from the frozen shores of the distant “North”, and ships coming and going from Vietnam, Indonesia, and the southern-most reaches of Africa.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 750
- Viking Age (793)
- An Lushan Rebellion (755)
- Islamic Golden Age (750)
- Khmer Empire (Angkor) (802)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Abbasid Caliphate founded (750)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Fall of the Sasanian Empire (651)
- Srivijaya Empire (650)
- Silla unifies Korea (668)