Person1213 – 1258
al-Musta’sim
Last Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, executed by the Mongols after the city fell in 1258
Where they went
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Hulagu, brother of Möngke Khan, took Baghdad and executed the caliph. The Abbasid Caliphate, over five centuries old, came to an end, and Hulagu founded the Ilkhanate.
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- Hulagu Khan1217 – 1265
Grandson of Genghis Khan who took Baghdad in 1258, ending the Abbasid Caliphate, and founded the Ilkhanate
- Möngke Khan1209 – 1259
Fourth Great Khan, who sent his brothers Hulagu to West Asia and Kublai against the Song, and died campaigning in Sichuan
Themes this person appears in
- Turkic-Islamic Empires and Other Civilizations1000 – 1533
From the Ghaznavid raids on India to the Mughal Empire and Suleiman I — five centuries in which Turkic-led Islamic empires took western Asia and India, while Africa, Southeast Asia and the Americas raised civilisations of their own
- The Mongol Conquests1206 – 1294
From the rise of Genghis Khan to the Yuan conquest of the Song — eighty years in which the Mongols swept Eurasia from Goryeo to Hungary