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Abbasid Baghdad's shock-and-awe diplomacy

Abbasid Baghdad's shock-and-awe diplomacy

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Feb 18, 2022
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Baghdad in the 10th century. The Abbasid Caliph Al Mansur commissioned the building of a perfectly round city in 762, possibly as a tribute to Euclid

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