Genghis Khan's grandson Haluga Khan conquered Baghdad in 1258. Why was the siege of Baghdad so devastating to Islamic culture?

The Mongols destroyed books and other cultural artifacts collected in Baghdad, and significantly reduced the population.

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Before the Mongolian army destroyed it, the city of Baghdad in modern-day Iraq was the center of Islamic culture. Thousands of scholarly and religious texts were housed them in the city's libraries and Islam's most talented scholars lived in the city. The Mongols showed no respect for the cultural artifacts in Baghdad, throwing many of them into the Tigris river. They also slaughtered so many people that they seriously disrupted any systems for sharing knowledge that were in place in Baghdad.

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