The History Of Baghdad: The Medieval World's Greatest City
June 16, 2022
923,783
27,259
2,364
3.21%
Search the Record
IndexedEvery word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
Cogito Episodes Around June 16, 2022
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
25:55Now PlayingThe History Of Baghdad: The Medieval World's Greatest City
Segments
YouTube Description
as posted by the channelEw, ads! Want to see this without ads, earlier, along with exclusive content? Go to
Baghdad is home to 7 million people. This sprawling urban jungle is the second largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. But between the skyscrapers and honking cars you can see remains of this city's magnificent mediaeval past. This once Round City’s walls crumbled long ago. But a thousand years ago brilliant scientists, architects, writers, and merchants of different races and religions made massive contributions to the knowledge of humanity. Back when Paris and London were home to 20,000 people over 1 Million Baghdadi's lived here among canals, libraries, and palm trees.
So what is the history of Baghdad, what’s a House of Wisdom, and what does it all have to do with Mediaeval Robots trying to get people drunk?
This video was researched and written by Deborah Oliveira.
Go checkout
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE TO MY PATREON PLEASE SEE HERE.
Follow me on twitter
Or Reddit r/cogitoedu
Or Facebook @CogitoYT
MERCHANDISE
teespring.com/stores/cogito-store
Who Are The Sami People? |
What Is Islam? |
Who Are The Māori People Of New Zealand? |
What Is Taoism? |
What Is A Cult?
History Of Tea |
What Was The Indus Valley Civilisation? |
What Is Judaism |
Who Are The San Bushmen? |
What Is Zoroastrianism? |
What Is Hinduism?
What Is Sikhism?
Sources and Further Reading:
VIDEOS
Crash Course
Al Muqaddimah playlist
Penn Museum
Al Jazeeraand
PODCASTS
Every single episode from the Abbasid History Podcast
Also follow them on Twitter
BOOKS
The Caliph's Splendor by Benson Bobrick
Baghdad: An Urban History through the Lens of Literature by Iman Al-Attar
The House of Wisdom by Jim al-Khalili
The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World by Hugh Kennedy
OTHER SOURCES
1001 Nights
The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices
Music by Epidemic Sound
Video/Images provided by Getty Images and Archive.org
Maps provided by maptiler/Geolayers
#History #Baghdad #Animation #AncientHistory
Links & Promotions
Guests & Subjects Covered
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.