Baghdad: The Forging of Islam (TRIH eps 376-379)
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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. Arabic was the universal language,...
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- Khmer Empire (Angkor) (802)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Islamic Golden Age (750)
- Abbasid Caliphate founded (750)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Silla unifies Korea (668)
- Reconquista (722)
- Viking Age (793)
- Coronation of Charlemagne (800)
- Founding of Baghdad (762)